JLJ4618814: National Institute meets in Paris to advance arts and sciences (engraving), French School / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618296: First celebration of freedom on the occasion of the Swiss of Chateauvieux on April 15, 1792 (engraving), Prieur, Jean Louis, II (1759-95) (after) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618405: Nebula NGC 2183 in the Unicorn - Nebula NGC 2183 in Monoceros - Nebulae NGC 2183 and NGC 2185. Image obtained with a telescope 61 cm in diameter. NGC 2183 and NGC 2185. Image taken with a 24 - inch telescope / Bridgeman Images

LRI4618409: Roots, 1945 (watercolor), Wols, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-51) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618420: French revolutionaries win at Jemmapes, Nov. 6, 1792, over Austrians in Belgium, 1792 (engraving), French School / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618464: French Revolution: Journees of May 31, June 1 and 2, 1793 (engraving), French School / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618488: Open cluster NGC 2244 in the nebula of the Rosette - The Rosette Nebula and NGC 2244 cluster - The Rosette nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas situated about 5500 years away from Earth. Towards the center of the nebula, a cluster of blue stars, NGC 2244 formed less than a million years ago. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. In the hollowed - out centre of the Rosette nebula lies NGC 2244, the cluster of young stars recently formed there. The cluster has itself created the cavity, radiation pressure and stellar winds from the stars blowing the gas and dust away from the young cluster. The hottest (and brightest) members of the group are seen as distinctly blue on this photograph, a colour corresponding to a surface temperature around 20,000K which may be compared with the Sun's 5500K. The nebula and its cluster is at a distance of about 4500 light years and shows many streaks and globules of dust, remnants of the cloud from which the stars formed / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618850: French Revolution: Fete of the founding of the Republique on the 1st of Friday An V in the Invalides Garden in Paris, 18th century (engraving), Girardet, (18th century) (after) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4618868: Penelope and Telemachus, 1970 (bronze sculpture), Chirico, Giorgio de (1888-1978) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618887: Nebula NGC 3372 in the Carene - The Carina nebula, NGC 3372 - The Carene nebula is located about 7000 years from the Earth. It is home to many hot stars, including the star Eta Carinae in the centre of the nebula. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. The brightest part of the Milky Way, as seen by the unaided eye, lies in the southern constellation Carina. Here there are an unusually large number of young, hot stars. Their radiation is rich in energetic ultraviolet light. Many of these stars were born within the spectacular Carinae nebula, seen here. The nebula is a cloud of glowing gas composed mostly of hydrogen. It excited by ultrviolet light from the embedded stars. This dostictive emission radiation is responsible for the red colour. About a quarter of the nebula is made of helium gas, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen, and all the other chemical elements account for only a few percent of the total mass. The brightest star in the nebula is known as eta Carinae. This remarkable object is one of the most luminous and most massive stars known / Bridgeman Images

TEC4618919: Strasbourg station (Bas Rhin, Alsace). Extension, Place de la gare, architects Jean Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaud, realisation 2007. Photography 10/06/08., Duthilleul, Jean Marie (b.1952) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618955: Evacuation of Holland by the Russian Anglo and surrender of the Duke of York on the 10th fog An VIII (engraving), French School / Bridgeman Images

PIX4618996: Nebulae in the Carene - H - Alpha - The Carene nebula (NGC 3372), on the right, is located about 7000 light years from Earth. It is home to many hot stars, including the star Eta Carinae. Lower left, nebulae NGC 3603 and NGC 3576. Image made with an H - alpha filter in Chile / Bridgeman Images

LRI4619026: Stamp, 20th century (mixed media), Arman (Pierre Fernandez Armand) (1928-2005) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619035: The development of a bicycle path in Strasbour (Alsace). / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619047: The tram in Strasbourg (Alsace). / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619081: Urban furniture of a tram station in Strasbourg (Bas Rhin, Alsace). / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619128: Galloromain (Gallo-Roman) art: glassware from the excavations of Lutece (glass), Gallo-Roman / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618548: War of the French Revolution and anti-revolutionary movements: War of Vendee, 1793 (engraving), French School / Bridgeman Images

LBY4618566: A Segafredo advertising canvas, stretched on a building in Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

MDA4618583: Telephone central, 17 rue du Faubourg Poissonniere, Paris 10th. Architect Francois Le Coeur (1872-1934), construction 1913. Photography 1990. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4618636: War of the French Revolution and anti-revolutionary movements: War of Vendee, 1795 (engraving), Girardet, (18th century) (after) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619148: Art France. Faience Sinceny c.1750: legumier (vegetable dish). Chinoiserie, 1750 (ceramic), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4619201: Nebulae NGC 3603 and NGC 3576 in Carene - NGC 3576 and 3603 in Carina - NGC 3576 (right) is located about 7000 years - light from Earth; NGC 3603 (left) is twice as far away. These two nebulae are located in the constellation Carene. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. These two star - formation regions appear side by side in the sky and seem to be linked as parts of an extensive nebula. However, the apparent intimacy is line - of - sight effect because these two objects are at quite different distances from the Sun. The curious looped nebula NGC 3576 is about 7000 light years from us while its neighbour NGC 3603 is more than twice as far away. That NGC 3603 is the more distant is confirmed by its colour, which is a ruddier red than the pinkish hue of NGC 3576. The change in colour is due to absorption of the blue - light component of the nebulosity by dust particles in the much longer line of sight. This effect is known as interstellar reddening, though it would be better described as 'de - blue'. The wide field shows the calibration step wedges that provide photometric and colour balance information / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619232: Portrait of Anne of Austria (1601-1666), Queen of France, 17th century (painting), Pourbus, Frans II (1569-1622) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619253: Gallo-Roman art: representation of the god to birds. Stone statue (stone), Gallo-Roman / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619301: Palais de l'Universite in Strasbourg (Haut Rhin, Alsace).Construction 1878-1884, architect Otto Warth (1845-1918). Photography 04/06/00. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4619305: Nebula NGC 6188 in the Altar - The NGC 6188 nebula and NGC 6193 in Ara - Nebula NGC 6188 is located about 4000 years from Earth. It is home to a cluster of young stars NGC 6193, formed three million years ago. Image obtained by Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. Here we see two bright stars whose radiant energy is beating down on to the surface of a dark cloud, very similar to the Horsehead in Orion. The cloud itself is opaque and because of that, very cold inside. These conditions are ideal for the formation of organic molecules on the surfaces of the chilled dust particles. The opacity of the cloud protects the fragile molecules within from the energetic radiation of nearby stars, but as its surface is gradually warmed and eroded, the delicate organic molecules are destroyed and the hydrogen released glows as a distinctive red emission nebula / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619317: Francois Arago (1786-1853) studied popular astronomy in the amphitheatre of the observatory (painting), Chartran, Theobald (1849-1907) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4619330: Nebula NGC 6188 in the Altar - NGC 6188 nebula in Ara - Nebula NGC 6188 is located about 4000 years from Earth. It is home to a cluster of young stars NGC 6193, formed three million years ago. Lower left, nebula NGC 6164. Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). NGC 6188 is a red emission nebula located in southern constellation of Ara, about 4000 light years away. Inside of it, a young 3 million year star cluster. NGC 6193. The hottest stars of the cluster, two closely spaced O - type giants HD 150135 and HD 150136, (the bright stars in the image) are the illumination source of the emission nebula. Bottom left is the nebula NGC 6164. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H - alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors / Bridgeman Images

LRI4619357: Poster for 'The Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries' 1897 (colour litho), Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-98) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619368: La rue du vieux marcheæa fish, Cafe Montmartre in Strasbourg (Bas Rhin, Alsace). / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619177: Art France: Small wall console beginning 18th century (wood), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

LBY4619214: Urban furniture created by Norman Foster, for the streetcars of Strasbourg (Bas Rhin, Alsace).ÆPhotograph 04/04/00., Foster, Norman (b.1935) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4619244: The great café de France, boulevard and Bonne Nouvelle bazaar in Paris, 19th century (etching), French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4619287: Advertising poster for Michael Huber colours, 1903, Metlicovitz, Leopoldo (1868-1944) / Bridgeman Images