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
PCT4274374: Toulouse: Twin Bridges. Here, in 1814, during what is known as the Battle of Toulouse, the English troops of Wellington malmended the French soldiers of Marechal Soult. To protect his men's retirement, Soult ordered the destruction of some twenty bridges built in Riquet's time on the Canal du Midi. The armistice was signed on the edge of the same Canal at Naurouze on 18 April 1814. Postcard beginning 20th century., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4271371: Man has a big belly spitting out rabbits that he swallows alive. Illustration from the Book of Nonsense, 1846 by Edward Lear, British writer, cartoonist, comedian, and ornithologist (1812-1888). E. Lear himself illustrated his limericks (nursery rhymes), poems of an absurd, wacky humour, closer to the universe of Lewis Carroll. / Bridgeman Images
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
PCT4272536: The people and the king in France in the old times (Middle Ages, feodale period). Double page of “” the Histoire de France par l'image”” by Blanchet and Toutain, Librairie Belin, early 20th century. The page dealing with the King is framed by draperies marked with flowers of Lys, the one dealing with the people (serf and bourgeois) is framed by chains. / Bridgeman Images