PCT4286741: Illustration of the novel by Jules Renard (1864-1910): Carrot Hair, written in 1894: Carrot Hair wanting to pee at night seeks the pot that her mother did not put under her bed - Edition Calmann-Levy 1924, illustration by Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946)., Poulbot, Francisque (1879-1946) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286770: The art of description at Honore de Balzac (portrait) - engraving by H. Monnier in the edition Houssiaux 1853 of Lost Illusions, cycle of Scenes of Provincial Life (La Comedie Humaine - Etude de moreurs) - “” Camusot: un bon, gros et gras marchand de silks de la rue des Bourdonnais”” - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286959: Picturesque and tourist route of the Combe-Laval (Combe Laval) Drome (Vercors, Dauphine, Lente forest) built in 1896 by the Forestry Administration at the evirons of St Jean-en-Royans (Saint Jean en Royans) - against the parapet dominant the precipice was pushed a pile of stones from the rock drilling work - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287030: Romanesque doorway (circa 1185) Cathedral Church of St. Flannan, Killaloe, County Clare in Ireland, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin - Roman stone portal (ca. 1185) of the Cathedrale Saint-Flannan, Killaloe, Ireland - This is one of the most beautiful examples of Romanesque sculpture in Ireland - Roman art - Photo Patrice Cartier Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287412: Watchmaking industry at the Chaux de Fonds (La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century: reclame (advertisement) published in 1901 in the French magazine “” Rectures pour tous”” - Exact watch factory - watch that gives the time in the oscurite - precision watchmaking - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287467: Guadeloupe at the beginning of the 20th century: the Galion Bridge on the road from Basse-Terre to Pointe-a-Pitre - period postcard, edition Caille - on the back of the map, the expediter describes the mountains of the island “” almost inaccessible due to the lack of communication routes””” and “” covered with forests containing remarkable woods, among which wood of rose, walnut, pear tree, pink laurel, green ebene, mahogany, balata, sapotillier, curbarrel, mahogani - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287723: Engraving by Honore Daumier in the Charivari, mid-19th century: the new Parisian charcuterie - a butcher - sausage offers a client a horse's foot (still equipped with his iron) - “” new feet at the Ste Menehould invent by the hippophages (horse eaters)” - horse meat - hippophagy - food scandal - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4287972: Saint Pair (Paterne or Patern), originally from Armorique, is the first eveque attests to Vannes and one of the seven holy founders of Brittany (died between 490 and 511) - Jealous by the city authorities, he had to leave the region to take refuge in a monastery. Legend says that after his death many miracles would have taken place on his grave. Caught of remorse, the Vannetais brought home the remains of their eveque and built the church of Saint Patern on its tomb - Engraving by Adolphe Gusman, mid-19th century: St Pair warmed a sick child - St Patern feast on April 15 or May 21 (Roman calendar) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288210: Campaign of Egypt, 1798: At the foot of the pyramids, the soldiers of the army of General Bonaparte look at the grave hieroglyphs on the wall of a temple - a young drum wrote from above: “” live the Republic “” - egyptology - graffiti - tag - Illustration of Job (Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville) (1858-19131) for the book “La Cantiny” “” by G. Montorgueil, circa 1900 - Napoleonic countryside - egyptology - Napoleon -, Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288220: Carrieres-sur-Seine (Carrieres sur Seine, Val-d'Oise 95 - Val d'Oise, formerly Carrieres-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Oise - Seine and Oise - Ile-de-France) banks of the Seine and laundry boat (boat wash): colorized postcard early 20th century sent in 1905 - in the foreground, young people flirt on the grass at the edge River - Flirt - Boats - laundry - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288354: Portrait of Rolland Michel Barrin, Count of La Galissoniere (1693 - 1756) naval officer, colonial administrator and French aristocrat of the 17th and 18th centuries. He was governor of New France from 1747 - 1749 - engraving of Charles Canivet's book “Les colonies perdues” - bookshop Furne & Jouvet 1896 - French colonies, colonialism - / Bridgeman Images