PCT4291518: Metropolitan tubular railway from Vincennes to the Bois de Boulogne (Parisian metro) - Elabore project by M. Berlier for the 1900 exhibition in Paris - map of the route, tunnel drilling works, section of the rue Saint-Antoine showing the tunnel and the egouts, station of the Arc de Triomphe (Place de l'Etoile) - Excerpt from the magazine Les Annales Politics and Literaries, December 1894 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291628: Construction of the Paris metropolitan (metro) near the Alexandre III Bridge, North-South Line: installation of the Berlier tube under the Seine, thwarted by the flood of the river in 1910. Construction of the metropolitan of Paris. North-South line: Berlier tube under the Seine, 1910. Jean-Baptiste Berlier, born in 1841 or 1843 and died in 1911, was a French engineer and inventor, to whom the first project of an electric underground railway in Paris in 1887, then melted into the global realisation of the metropolitan area from 1900. Postcard 1910 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291668: The mascaret, (locally called “” bar “”, wave up the Seine from the mouth of the river) photograph in Caudebec-en-Caux (Caudebec en Caux) commune of Seine-Maritime (Seine Maritime, Normandy) became in 2016 by merging with two neighbouring localites the new municipality of Rives-en-Seine (Rives en Seine) - postcard beginning 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4292057: Presidential campaign of 1980 in France: list of the first 150 signatures of the committee supporting the candidacy of Coluche (Michel Colucci, comedian and comedian, 1944-1986) for the presidency of the French Republic, presidential elections of 1981 (which finally saw Francois Mitterrand arrive at the head of the French State, after the withdrawal of the comic of politics. Taking full advantage of the provocation register, Reiser's drawing notes that “Hitler also started with 150 signatures”. Similarly, the qualities of the signatories are sometimes outrageous or fanciful, as lazy (or lazy), crook (for his producer Paul Lederman), alcoholic, pede, fool, pieton, Jewish or even... Toulousaine - last cover of Charlie Hebdo (Charlie-Hebdo) No. 521 of 5 November 1980 - see also GUT6470, GUT7252 and 7258 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4284684: Map from a book of French geography beginning 20th century (1904): Departments of the East region - the border between France and the German Empire are as they were before 1919: the Departments of Alsace and Moselle are part of Germany (French and German territories) - First World War of 14-18 (1914-1918) - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285765: Illustration of the book by Leo Taxil and J. Vindex “Marat ou les heros de la revolution””, Anti-clerical Librairie (anti-clerical, anticlerical) 1883 - French Revolution - Queen Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette) foltrating among a group of Croatian mercenaries: in this book very hostile to the kingdoms, the queen is presented as a light woman , devergondee, adultere and even called a royal prostituee - here she has fun pulling the moustaches of a Croatian pandour - Cardon engraving - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285963: 1895: the French industrialist Edouard Michelin (1859-1940) equips “” l'Eclair””, the first car on pneumatic tires, the ancestor of the modern car - automotive industry - cars, tires, tires, tires - Edouard Michelin sits on the passenger seat - quotations from Armand Peugeot: “As my mechanics will be well above it (1896)” and Count De Dion (Dion Button): “” we make the locomotive but Michelin supplied the rail (1897) - advertising card of Michelin Freres, early 20th century - / Bridgeman Images