Category Archives: French

Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé 1588 – 1646

Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life, and heir presumptive to the King of France from the age of 2 until he was 12. Henri was the father of Louis, le Grand Condé, the celebrated French general.

Artist/Engraver
Size 16 x 8 cms
Price £18.00

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Claude de Lorraine, chevalier d’Aumale 1564 -1591

Claude de Lorraine, chevalier d’Aumale was a French churchman, noble and military commander during the French Wars of Religion. The second son of Claude, Duke of Aumale and Louise de Brézé

Artist/Engraver Thomas de Leu
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

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Vincent Voiture 1597-1648

Vincent Voiture, French Mannerist and Baroque Précieuses poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d’Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions

Artist/Engraver Jacques Lubin
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £12.00

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Nicolas de Catinat 1637-1712

The son of a magistrate, Catinat was born in Paris . He entered the Gardes Françaises at an early age and distinguished himself at the Siege of Lille in 1667.He became a brigadier ten years later, maréchal de camp in 1680, and lieutenant-general 1688. He served with great credit in the campaigns of 1676–1678 in Flanders during the Franco-Dutch War, and was later employed in the persecution of the Vaudois in 1686. After taking part in the Siege of Philippsburg at the opening of the Nine Years War, he was appointed to command the French troops in the south-eastern theatre of war. In 1691 he crossed into the County of Nice, and captured the towns Nice and Villefranche.

Artist/Engraver: after Johann Georg Wille
Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £18.00

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Sylvain Charles, Count Valee 1773-1846

Sylvain-Charles, comte Valée , born in Brienne-le-Château, was a Marshal of France.
Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution, Valée enlisted in the French revolutionary army and was sent to serve in the Army of the Nord. Promoted to captain in 1795 and to lieutenant colonel in 1804, Valée distinguished himself in the Battle of Jena, after which he was promoted to colonel in 1807 and given command of the 1st Artillery Regiment. In 1809, Valée was made commander of the artillery of the III Corps in Spain, where he distinguished himself in the sieges of Lleida, Tarragona, Tortosa and Valencia. In 1811 Valée was promoted to général de division and in 1814 Napoléon created him a count.

Artist/Engraver Antoine Maurin (1783-1860)
Size 23 x 15 cms
Price £18.00

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François de Créquy 1629-1687

François de Blanchefort de Créquy, later Marquis de Marines,was a 17th-century French noble and soldier, who served in the wars of Louis XIV of France. He came from a powerful and well-connected family, his grandfather Charles I de Blanchefort (1578–1638) being a Marshal of France. Rewarded for supporting the Royalists during The Fronde (1648–1653), his elder brother Charles (1623–1687) was a senior advisor to Louis while François had a successful military career.

Artist/Engraver
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine 1604-1675

Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.

Artist/Engraver
Size 13 x 9.5 cms
Price £14.00

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Henri II d’Orléans, duc de Longueville 1595-1663

Henry II of Orleans, Duke of Longueville or Henry of Valois-Longueville , was a legitimate prince of France (of royal descent) and peer of France, served as governor of Picardy, then of Normandy, and was a major figure during the Fronde.

Artist/Engraver
Size 10 x 7 cms
Price £14.00

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Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne 1618-1679

Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Prince of Epinoy, Marquis of Roubaix and Count of Fauquemberg, was a nobleman from the Spanish Netherlands, a soldier and diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain and Charles II of Spain.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

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