Category Archives: French

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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1656-1708

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Artist: Pigeot
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1458

Jacques Denis Cochin 1726-1783

French Roman Catholic priest, preacher and philanthropist. He founded in 1780 Paris’s Hôpital Cochin, as the hospice of Saint-Jacques du Haut Pas, in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques.
Artist: E.Conquey
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1476

Françoise Marie de Bourbon Duchess of d’Orleans 1677-1749

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

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Antoine François Fourcroy 1755-1809

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

Dagobert Sigismund, Count von Wurmser 1724-1797

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, 1638-1714 King of France

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 1770-1823

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
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:677

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