Françoise Marie de Bourbon, légitimée de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d’Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces.
Date:1835
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp-Eutin was a cadet of the reigning ducal House of Holstein-Gottorp who became prince of Eutin, prince-bishop of Lübeck and regent of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Artist: Ed.Schuler
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sanlerre
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
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Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and historian of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
Artist: F.Rehberg
Date:1817
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
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French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who founded Romanticism in French literature
Artist: Girodet-Trioson
Date:
Size 11 x 13 cms
Price £24.00
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Luigi Cherubini was an Italian Classical and pre-Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment.
Artist: Van Loo
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors
Artist: Geoffroy
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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