FLO4601530: Sioux chief Shoo-de-Ga-cha, Smoke, in buffalo robe outside a teepee 87 and his wife or squaw Hee-La'h-dee, Pure Fountain 88. Her arms and neck are tattooed by pricking with gunpowder and vermilion. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594675: L'Eglise de La Madeleine, Place de la Madeleine, Paris 8th arrondissement. Its construction lasted nearly a century. Subject to political aleas, it was finally Napoleon (1769-1821) who entrusted Pierre Vignon (1763-1828) with the task of building an ancient temple dedicated to his military glory. Only the Restoration restored its religious vocation to the Church of Sainte Marie Madeleine in 1842, architect Charles Girault (1851-1932). Photography 1999. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594794: Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. Bernard Huet was asked in 1994 to bring back the Champs Elysees in order to restore its prestige to the avenue: the cars were driven from the allees, an underground car park created, the floor covered with grey granite slabs. The promenade aspect was reinforced by the planting of a second row of plane trees and new constraints were defined for signs and windows. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594805: Dress (Dress) of the reign of George IV, 1820-1830. Woman in feathered headdress, high-waisted gown and embroidered skirt, gloves and fan. Based on dresses preserved after the first Dressingroom held by the king, when hoops were abolished by command. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4594909: Urban furniture on the Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. As part of the redesign of the Champs Elysees entrusted to Bernard Huet, a new line of urban furniture has been specially designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte to give a unit by eliminating bulky and unnecessary elements: new benches, candelabres, lights, kiosks. Photography 1998. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594977: Miss Felicite Hullin, dancer, in the ballet “” La Paysanne Supposee”” at the Italian Opera House Haymarket. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Frederic de Waldeck. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4595021: Fouquet's avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th round. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4602509: Stained glass windows of the Cathedrale de Chartres (Eure and Loire). Built partly from 1145, and rebuilt in twenty-six years after the fire of 1194, it is the monument par excellence of French Gothic art. Its vast nave of the purest ogival style, its porches with admirable mid-12th century sculptures, its shimmering set of stained glass windows from the 12th and 13th centuries make it an exceptional masterpiece and remarkably well preserved. The Cathedrale de Chartres has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Photography 30/06/05. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4611780: surgical chair with patient to remove a vesical calculation through the groin - Plate taken from “” L'Encyclopedie”” by Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783), 1779 - Surgical chairs with patients held in place for a bladder stone operation through the groin, Plate 12. Surgical instruments including dilators 1-3, curette 6 and hook curette 7, Plate 11. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779. / Bridgeman Images