PIX4604515: Fusees Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA - Illustration - The Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA rockets - Illustration - Artist view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket, on the left, compare to the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, on the right. Artist's impression of the Ariane 5 ES ATV (left) with the Ariane 5 ECA (right) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604628: Conseil d'Etat in Paris, Palais Royal, Paris (photo), Lemercier, Jacques (c.1585-1654) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4604674: Artist's view of the launcher Soyuz - Fregat with the satellite GIOVE - A / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604483: Etam, Rue de Rivoli, Paris. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604496: The head office of the Banque de France in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4604533: Fusees Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA - Illustration - The Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA rockets - Illustration - Artist view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket, on the left, compare to the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, on the right. Artist's impression of the Ariane 5 ES ATV (left) with the Ariane 5 ECA (right) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604637: Conseil d'Etat in Paris, Palais Royal, Paris (photo), Lemercier, Jacques (c.1585-1654) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604653: Conseil d'Etat in Paris, Palais Royal, Paris (photo), Lemercier, Jacques (c.1585-1654) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4604704: Detail of the metro station of the Palais Royal in Paris. Plastic intervention by Jean Michel Othoniel., Othoniel, Jean-Michel (b.1964) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603049: The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS - 133 mission on 7 March 2011. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7 a.m. (ST) on March 7, 2011. Discovery spent eight days, 16 hours, and 46 minutes attached to the orbiting laboratory / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602998: Astronaut Exit into Space - Astronauts extravehicular activity - Astronaut Exit Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew (at the bottom of the picture) into space. Maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS). 28 February 2011. NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew, both STS - 133 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six - hour, 34 - minute spacewalk, Bowen and Drew installed the J612 power extension cable, move a failed ammonia pump module to the External Stowage Platform 2 on the Quest Airlock for return to Earth at a later date, installed a camera wedge on the right hand truss segment, installed extensions to the mobile transporter rail and exposed Japanese “” Message in a Bottle”” experiment to space. 28 Feb. 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603114: The International Space Station (ISS) and the Shuttle Endeavour 05/2011 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (ISS) 05/2011 - View of the Space Shuttle Endeavour moored at the International Space Station, from the Soyuz TMA spaceship - 20 on 23 May 2011. This series of images shows for the first time a shuttle moored to the space station from a Russian Soyuz spaceship. This image of the International Space Station and the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA - 20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space / Bridgeman Images

LRI4602466: Boulevard de Clichy, three children Painting by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) 20th century Private Collection, Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4602484: The Cathedral of 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

LRI4603188: Reception of the Imperial Ambassador Count Bolagnos at the Ducal Palace in Venice Giuseppe Bolagnos, Ambassador of Emperor Charles VI or Charles of Habsburg (1685-1740) in the Republic of Venice. Painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal dit il Canaletto (1697-1768) 1729 Sun. 184x265 cm Milan, Collezione Aldo Crespi, Canaletto, (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (1697-1768) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4603299: The forum des halles, Paris. Architects Jacques Bouton, Georges Pencreac'h and Claude Vasconi, construction 1979., Bouton, J. (b.1935), Pencreac'h G. (b.1941) & Vasconi, C. (1940-2009) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4603444: The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Tuileries, Paris, France (photo), Percier, Charles (1764-1838) & Fontaine, Pierre (1762-1853) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4603456: The Pont des Arts, Paris. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603340: Cygnus Cargo 01/2014 - Cygnus automatic module mooring at the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) on January 12, 2014. The Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo craft attached to the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member during rendezvous and berthing operations on Jan. 12, 2014 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4603683: Portrait of a young girl Pastel by Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) 18th century Paris, Louvre Museum, Carriera, Rosalba Giovanna (1675-1757) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603714: Space Shuttle Hermes - Artist's view - European spaceplane Hermes - Illustration - Artist's view of the European Space Shuttle project Hermes, 1991. This reusable space plane was to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket and take several spationauts into space. The project under study in the 1980s was finally abandoned in 1993. Artwork made in 1991 showing the european space shuttle Hermes. This space shuttle was to be launched atop an ariane 5 rocket and should carry astronauts and payloads in space. First studied at the beginning of eighties, this project was cancelled in 1993 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602983: Cosmonaut in space - Cosmonaut extravehicular activity - Exit of cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka into space. Maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS). 16 February 2011. English cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev (out of frame), both Expedition 26 flight engineers, wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the four - hour, 51 - minute spacewalk, Kondratyev and Skripochka set up and retrieved scientific equipment from the Russian segment of the station. 16 Feb. 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603780: Atmospheric Re - entry Demonstrator (ARD) - Artist's view of the rent in the terrestrial atmosphere of the ARD capsule (Atmospheric Re - entry Demonstrator). Launch into space by an Ariane 5 rocket in October 1998, this capsule was used by Europeans to successfully test the atmosphere and landing parameters for future space flights. The Atmospheric Re - entry Demonstrator (ARD) was released by an Ariane 5 on 21 October 1998. Engineers analysing data from its sub - orbital flight reported that all the capsule's systems had performed well and according to expectations. ARD reached an altitude of 830 km and splashed down to within 4.9 km of its target point in the Pacific Ocean between the Marquises and Hawaii after one hour and 41 minutes. Although not strictly a prototype of a possible future European Crew Transport Vehicle (CTV), which could fly to and from the International Space Station, ARD is a major step towards providing greater confidence in Europe's capabilities in reentry technologies for use not only in the frame of crew and equipment transport but also for future re - usable launchers / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4603791: head of man with nose broken, 19th century (sculpture), Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603120: The International Space Station (ISS) and the Shuttle Endeavour 05/2011 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (ISS) 05/2011 - View of the Space Shuttle Endeavour moored at the International Space Station, from the Soyuz TMA spaceship - 20 on 23 May 2011. This series of images shows for the first time a shuttle moored to the space station from a Russian Soyuz spaceship. This image of the International Space Station and the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA - 20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space / Bridgeman Images

LRI4603175: The removal of Proserpine. (Painting, 16th-17th century), Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (c.1564-1638) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4601717: International Space Station (ISS) 06 - 2007 - View of the station after the start of the shuttle Atlantis on 19 - 06 - 2007. Mission STS-11 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4601733: Saint Paul on the throne, detail. circa 1515 (painting on wood), Beccafumi, Domenico (1484-1551) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4601740: The International Space Station (ISS) seen from Endeavour 08 - 2007 - View of the station after the depart of the shuttle Endeavour on 19 - 08 - 2007. Mission STS-11 / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4601746: Portrait of Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes (1719-1787), 18th century (engraving), French School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4601767: The mystical wedding of St. Catherine of Siena and Saints. 1528 (Oil on wood), Beccafumi, Domenico (1484-1551) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4601815: The International Space Station (ISS) 11 - 2007 - The International Space Station (ISS) 11 - 2007 - The International Space Station (ISS) seen from Shuttle Discovery before returning to Earth on November 5, 2007. Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS - 120 and Expedition 16 crews concluded 11 days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 4:32 a.m. (CST) on Nov. 5, 2007 / Bridgeman Images

LBY4601863: L'ile Saint Louis, Quai Bourbon, Paris 4th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4601884: Le quai Henri IV, Paris 4th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4601911: Polyptic of Saint Vincent Ferrier (Vicent Ferrer, Vicente Ferrer) (1350-1419): “” Saint Christopher””” Panel on the left. Painting on wood by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1432-1516) dit il Giambellino 1464-1468 Sun. 167x67 cm Venice, Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4600817: Sledding ride of Alexander II's family Russian school, 1854 (lithograph), Russian School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images