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
Ref:2444
French soldier and politician, conqueror of Algiers (1830), for which he received the title of marshal of France.
Artist: Julien
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2219
French chemist and a contemporary of Antoine Lavoisier. Fourcroy collaborated with Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, and Claude Berthollet on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work that helped standardize chemical nomenclature
Date:1819
Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:538
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout, better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Date:1804
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:601
Fought for the French in the Seven Years War, then transferred to the Austrian service; Field Marshal in the Imperial Army; relieved the siege of Mantua in 1796 but was taken prisoner by Napoleon when the emperor retook the city the following year, dying in captivity.
Artist: Jacob Adam
Date:1796
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1849
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2384
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:677
Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French (1782-1866) was the sixth daughter of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, and Maria Caroline of Austria. She married Louis-Philippe, Duc d’Orléans (later King of the French) in 1809
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Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:668
Frenchwoman who in 1821 pulled her paralysed partner in a handcart from Bordeaux to Paris in hope of finding work there.
Artist: Adle J.de Mance
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1467
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
Ref:2455