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
Ref:805
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
Ref:1827
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
Ref:1681
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
Ref:3008
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
Ref:2519
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
Ref:2368
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
Ref:2361
Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Artist: Sanlerre
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Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1800
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine was an illegitimate son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan. The king’s favourite son, he was the founder of the semi-royal House of Bourbon-Maine named after his title and his surname.
Size 10 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:282
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano was a member of the House of Savoy and Generalfeldmarschall of the Imperial Army and statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria
Size 26 x 28 cms
Price £55.00
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