Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.
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French lawyer
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Artist: Ch. Bowier
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Size 14 x 19 cms
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French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.
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Danish military leader and Marshal of France. Josias was the grandson of Paul, the youngest son of Johann Rantzau. He married his Cousin Hedwig Margarethe Elisabeth vor Rantzau, but had no children. As a young man, he served Prince Maurice of Orange and King Christian IV of Denmark.
Size 14 x 18 cms
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Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron was a French Jesuit who became Bishop of Marseille.
Artist: Dequevauviller
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Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
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Size 10 x 13 cms
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Attended the court of Louis XVI where she was part of the circle of Marie Antoinette. She founded the Work of the Neglected Children to help orphans. She married in 1783 Louis Gabriel The Seneschal of Kercado.
Artist: Clara Nargeol
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Size 14 x 19 cms
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French chemist and industrialist, head of many factories in Paris, and member of no less numerous official, governmental or academic bodies.
Artist: Gerard
Date:1834
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Marquis of Antin, Gondrin and Montespan (1701), then 1st Duke of Antin (1711) French nobleman.
Size 9 x 14 cms
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