A quasi-legendary medieval figure credited with founding or restoring the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals or Academy of the Floral Games. She is supposed to have left a legacy to fund awards in the form of gold and silver flowers that the city would award annually to the best poets.
Artist: Richomme
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1465
Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687
Artist: C.N.Cochin
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2473
Charles-François Panard, or Pannard, was an 18th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier
Artist: Du Roncerai
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2109
French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva.
Size 6 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1725
Nicolas Roze was a French composer and musicologist
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1450
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2322
French general and statesman. In 1741 he received control of a large army, with which it is said that he promised to make peace in three months under the walls of Vienna.
Artist: Mallini after de la Tour
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3030
Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur, the eldest surviving son of Nicholas, Duke of Mercœur and Jeanne de Savoie-Nemours, was a French soldier and prominent member of the Catholic League. He was made a knight of the Order of Saint Esprit in 1578. His wife was Marie de Luxemburg, the Duchess of Penthièvre
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2358
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
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:523