Statesman and diplomat from the Franche-Comté, who held high political office during the Dutch Revolt and played an important role in restoring Habsburg rule in the Southern Netherlands
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2999
Category Archives: French
Louis XVI king of France 1754-1793
Last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.
Size 7.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:480
Henri de Lorraine 1601-1666
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.
Size 14 x 19.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:871
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636-1711
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
Size 8.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1914
Henry de Lorraine Duc de Guise 1550-1588
Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré, was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2576
Marie-Joseph “Eugène” Sue 1804-1857
Marie-Joseph “Eugène” Sue was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843
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Size 16 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:658
Henry De Lorraine, Count De Chaligny
Prince Henri of Lorraine (31 July 1570 – 26 November 1600), Count of Chaligny and Marquis of Moy, was a French nobleman and a commander in the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion.
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Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1565
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon 1490-1527
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon was a French military leader, the Count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne, and Dauphin of Auvergne from 1501 to 1523, then Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Forez and La Marche, and Lord of Beaujeu from 1505 to 1521.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2520
Henri François d’Aguesseau 1668-1751 Chancellor of France
Henri François d’Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be “the most learned magistrate France ever possessed”.
Artist: R.Tourniere
Date:1720
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2102
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur 1558-1602
Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur was born on 9 September 1558 in Nomeny, France, the eldest surviving son of Nicholas, Count of Vaudémont and Jeanne de Savoie-Nemours. In 1575, Mercoeur married Marie de Luxembourg, daughter of Sébastien de Luxembourg, which, together with the title of Duc de Penthièvre, also brought him rights to the crown of the Duchy of Brittany. He was made a knight of the Order of Saint Esprit in 1578.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2600