PCT4272180: As a child, Giant Gargantua already has a gargantuan appetite! Here he is drinking from a huge glass. Gargantua = that big you have (the gullet). To be closer to gargante = throat. Illustration of Robida for the Gargantua de Rabelais - Librairie Armand Colin debut 20th century. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273620: Constitutional disease - diatheses. Herpetism (herpes) dartres. Characteristically eruptions of eczema during the second period of herpetism. Engraving from “” Les Grands Ales et les Grands Remedes”” by Jules Rengade, 1889. From “The Principal Illnesses and Their Remedies” by Jules Rengade. (Paris, 1889). / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273735: Nordic mythology: songs of L'Edda, Icelandic epopee (legende) whose complilation in verse is attributed to Saemond Sigfusson, a Christian priest living in Iceland between 1056 and 1133, during the declin of the ancient Vikings civilization (Wickings). Cycle of the Ases gods: the terrible wolf Fenris (the devorant fire), tied to a rock by a magical chain made by the dwarves of the underground world, bites the right hand of the god Tyre who will then be called the penguin god. Chromolithography of Liebig meat extract, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272479: Excerpt from the Alphabet of the Child Jesus, edition Alfred Mame a Tours, 1929. Each page offers two large decorative lettrines, with their Christian entry (letter A as love, B as goodness... up to Z as zele). “The zele is the burning desire to make God known and to make him love”. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4272731: Mother at home in 1900: laundry, cooking, education of children. The mother's spot is at home, the father earns the money, and the mother holds the household. Illustration by Louis Maitrejean (1895-1947). Extract from a book of moral for schoolchildren, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images