Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, was the eldest son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and grandson of the reigning French king, Louis XIV. He is commonly known as le Petit Dauphin to distinguish him from his father.
Artist: Larmessin, Nicolas de (1632-1694)
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Size 16 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1647
French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer
Date:1750
Size 8 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1188
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
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Size 4.5 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2756
Also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He pragmatically balanced the interests of the Catholic and Protestant parties in France as well as among the European states. He was assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII.
Date:1660
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2545
Claude de Lorraine, also called Claude de Guise, was a French noble and husband of Marie de Rohan. He was the Duke of Chevreuse, a title which is today used by the Duke of Luynes.
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Size 6.5 x 11 cms
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He died in the Leiden plague epidemic of 1602. His son Lucas Trelcatius the younger replaced him as preacher and professor in 1603, but died himself in 1607 after publishing Institutiones Theologicae.
Size 12 x 19 cms
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Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
Size 20 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1956
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs.
Size 20 x 30 cms
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French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States. He is among the foremost French generals in military history
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
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Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
Artist: Claude Duflos
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Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2583