François Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Conti, was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother, Louis Armand de Bourbon, in 1685. Until this date, he used the title of Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: French
Henri de Lorraine 1601-1666 Count of Harcourt
Henri de Lorraine, known as Cadet la Perle, was a French nobleman. He was count of Harcourt, count of Armagnac, count of Brionne and viscount of Marsan. He was the younger son of Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf and his wife Marguerite de Chabot, countess of Charny.
Artist: W.Jonkman
Date:1660
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles VIII, King of France 1470-1498
Charles VIII, called the Affable, was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. He succeeded his father Louis XI at the age of 13. His elder sister Anne acted as regent jointly with her husband Peter II, Duke of Bourbon until 1491 when the young king turned 21 years of age.
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Ludwig Armand de Bourbon. Printz de Conti
Louis Armand de Bourbon (10 November 1695 – 4 May 1727) was Prince of Conti, from 1709 to his death, succeeding his father, François Louis de Bourbon. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of the Blood. His mother was Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, daughter of Henri Jules, Prince of Condé and granddaughter of Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Condé. He was nominated as the Prince of Orange by King Louis XIV of France in 1712.
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Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Pierre Charles Louis Baudin 1748-1799
Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin, born 18 December 1748 in Sedan, Ardennes and died 14 October 1799 in Paris, was a French revolutionary and politician. He is the father of the admiral and explorer Charles Baudin and brother-in-law of the chemist Jean Henri Hassenfratz
Size 5 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
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Jules Mascaron 1634–1703
Jules Mascaron was a popular French preacher. He was born in Marseille as the son of a barrister at Aix-en-Provence. He entered the Oratory of Jesus early and became reputed as a preacher. Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court and became a favourite of Louis XIV, who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.
Artist: Delpech
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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François Fénelon 1651-1715
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.
Artist: Andreas Fridrich
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Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Emmanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy 1528-1580
Emmanuel Philibert was Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580, KG. He is remembered for the Italianization of the House of Savoy, as he recovered the savoyard state following the Battle of St. Quentin and subsequently moved the capital to Turin and made Italian the official language in Piedmont.
Artist: Sichem
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Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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Louis Philippe 1773-1850 king of France
Louis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848. As Duke of Chartres he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars but broke with the Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. He fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France’s monarchy.
Artist: Hagner
Size 29 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Henry II Duke of Lorraine 1563-1624
Henry was the son of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine and Claude of Valois daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici.[3] His paternal grandparents were Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, and Christina of Denmark. The splendour of his baptism in Bar-le-Duc was recalled by his aunt Margaret of Valois, who was ten at the time.
Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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