TAD1758136: Woman selling potatoes, Paris, engraving by Delpech, 1823 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758140: Saarlouis (Germany) founded in 1680 by LouisXIV, architect : Vauban : here the France gate, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758143: Map of Metz (Lorraine, France) with fortifications by Vauban, engraving by Molina, 1696 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758145: Neuf-Brisach (Alsace, France) : sentry box built by Vauban from 1699, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758146: Neuf-Brisach (Alsace, France) : sentry box built by Vauban from 1699, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758147: Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) French engineer and architect of LouisXIV, specialist in fortification, here in 1677 at siege of Cambrai,engraving by Charron after Bouchot / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758166: Louis XV (1710-1774) French king in 1715-1774, engraving by Morinet after Natoire / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758168: Louis XV (1710-1774) French king in 1715-1774, surrounded by allegories and gods, early 1752, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1758187: Marie Adelaide Clotilde Xaviere (1759-1802) daughter of the DauphinLouis of France and MarieJosepheofSaxe, she became queen of Sardinia, engraving by Cathelin after Ducreux / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756405: Pierre Terrail lord of Bayard (1476-1524) French knight, engraving by Jaspar Isaac / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756406: Francois de Valois (1518-1536) 1st son of French king Francois 1er, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756407: Charles of Orleans (1522-1545) 3rd son of Francois 1st, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756409: Marguerite of Angouleme (or de Valois 1492-1549) sister of Francois 1st, wife of king of Navarre Henrid'Albret, engraving (19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756431: June 25, 1791 : French king Louis XVI and his family coming back in Paris (here on LouisXV square now Concorde square) after their escape in Varennes, engraving by Germain / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756455: View of Chambord castle (France) built by Francois1st from 1519, 19th century engraving after Androuet du Cerceau (16th century) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756478: Attack of a fort, engravign from book by Samuel de Champlain 1632 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756490: Eleonor of Austria (1498-1558) sister of CharlesQuint, widow of king EmmanuelofPortugal, 2nd wife of Francois 1st, queen of France, engraving after her portrait in Fontainebleau / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756496: Pierre Terrail lord of Bayard (1476-1524) French knight, here at Garigliano bridge during wars of Italy, 1504, engraving after Lariviere / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756537: French soldiers in a former german canteen on Somme front (France) taken with battle which took place in 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756540: View of Lausanne in switzerland, engraving by Cuvillier, c. 1830 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756541: View of Geneva in Switzerland, engraving c. 1843 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756545: A grapes trader at time of 1st empire in France (1804-1815), engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756562: A beans and lentils trader at time of 1st empire in France (1804-1815), engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756566: Two men are eating : on r the man says that you have to eat for livinbg, the other one says that you have to live for eating, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756572: French emperor Napoleon 1st visiting bivouacs the day before Austerlitz battle on december 1st, 1805, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756577: A priest explaining to French emperor Napoleon 1st he burn the colonial staples in accordance with blocus against England in 1806, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756597: A French soldier in Nuremberg is giving a bird to a woman, drawing, 1806 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756625: Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) founder of Jesuit order in 1540, drawing after a bas-relief / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756629: Frontpage of French newspaper "La Matin" june 1st, 1908 : Steinheil affair / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756636: Marguerite Steinheil , born Japy (1869-1954) accused of murder she was acquitted on november 13, 1909 here in England on december 8, 1909 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756651: Poet Orpheus and Eurydice, engraving by Marcantonio raimondi, 16th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756657: The supreme commander of the French armies Anne de Montmorency (1492-1567) who took part in wars of Italy under reign of Francois1st, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756662: The court of French king Francois 1st (1494-1547, king in 1515-1547) c. 1540 : king on the throne is surrounded by courtiers, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1756675: Work of the stone in countries, engraving, 16th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757042: Louis Gustave Doulcet of Pontecoulant (1764-1853), peer of france, French politician, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1757047: General Gaspard Gourgaud (1783 1852) go with Napoleon1st on St Helene. He left the Islande in march 1818 / Bridgeman Images