DUV4210181: Letter F, G, H and I. Engraving (Chromolithography - Chromo) in “” Le grand alphabet de Bebe””. Paul Bernardin, bookseller-publisher, Paris, circa 1900. Bibliotheque des Bebes. 12 pages. Album containing a simplified reading method and an illustrated abecedary. Dim: 28,5x19cm. Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
PCT4274529: Duties to the elderly. Respect - old-fashioned. Extract from a book of morality beginning 20th century: Unique book of morality and civic instruction intended for students of the three courses of the Primary School and those of the primary classes of the Lycees et colleges - Cuffet et Bernat, edition Godchaux, Paris, drawing by Georges Dascher., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4274639: Victor Hugo “The Miserables”. Illustration by Brion. Engraving of the edition Ollendorff 1906. The elephant of the Bastille: on 2/12/1808, was laid in Place de la Bastille in Paris, the first stone of a grandiose fountain in the shape of an elephant, which was to celebrate the meeting of the waters of the Ourcq Canal with the water of the Seine, thanks to an underground canal crossing the square. In 1812, a life-size model, 24 m high, made of plaster with metal frame, was made on site. She remained there until 1847 and Victor Hugo became the refuge of her heros Gavroche in the novel Les Miserables, published in 1862. See also GUT0549. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4270334: Consular Seal of Beziers, 1226: Lamb supporting a cross (reference to a first chapter of the Gospel of Saint John). The peaceful character of the symbol is clearly affirmed by the legend: agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi dona nobis pacem (lamb of God who bears the sin of the world, give us peace). In this borrowing from the liturgical text, the last words replacing the original formula testified to the worries of a troubled period (“give us peace” instead of “” takes pity on us”). Histoire graphique du Languedoc, Ernest Roschach, Toulouse, 1905. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273965: Canal du Midi (Canal des deux mers) - Salleles d'Aude (Aude, Minervois, Languedoc) - Boat (peniche - pinardier) carrying wine barrels, passing a lock. Heclusier. Load on boats, the wine was brought to Sete (Cette) or Bordeaux, in half muids of 600 litres, 220 litre barrels or half pieces of 110 litres. Postcard 1907. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4274009: First World War (1914-1918): Portrait of Douglas Haig, first Earl of Bermersyde, Scottish and English soldier (1861-1928), appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in France in 1915. Here posing for the photo on his horse on the cover of the newspaper “L'image de la guerre”” n°61, January 1916., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4273366: Events of Morocco, taken over from Marrakech by the troops of Hubert (Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve) Lyautey (1854-1934) and Charles Mangin (1866-1925). Commander Simon, after having fled the pretendant El-Hiba (El Hiba) (Ahmed al-Hiba (Al Hiba), released the nine Frenchmen he was detaining in Marrakesh. Drawing by Damblans in Le Pelerin n°1834, September 22, 1912. See also ref. GUT2011 & COR8869, Damblans, Eugene (1865-1945) / 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
PCT4274175: Canal du Midi (Canal des deux mers): canal bridge (canal bridge) of the Fresquel, near Carcassonne. Artwork by Pierre Paul (Pierre-Paul) Riquet (1609-1680). Boat (boat) drawn by two horses on the towpath. Engraving of the work of Baron Claude Joseph Finds “” Description generale et statistique du Département de l'Aude””, edition Firmin Didot 1818. / Bridgeman Images