Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and historian of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
Artist: F.Rehberg
Date:1817
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
Ref:2450
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 12.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2350
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
Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo or Joseph Benedict Cottolengo was the founder of the Little House of Divine Providence and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Artist: Dequevauviller
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1478
Ambroise Paré was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1456
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great
Artist: Frisch
Date:
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2845
Louis René Édouard de Rohan , prince de Rohan-Guéméné, was a French bishop of Strasbourg, politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and cadet of the Rohan family (which traced its origin to the kings of Brittany).
Artist: Duval
Date:1786
Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1201
Favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against the Cardinal Richelieu, the king’s powerful first minister.
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet
Size 11.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:357
John I was a scion of the French royal family who ruled the Burgundian State from 1404 until his assassination in 1419.
Size 9.3 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:464
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy.
Date:
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:631