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
The House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine He is the youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville. Received as a Knight of Malta at a very young age. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. He died at the siege of Cambrai on September 6, 1653, and was buried in the Saint Laurent collegiate church in Joinville3.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2182
Barbe Françoise Madeleine Didion, known as Madeleine Didion, born in Nancy in 1798 and died on January 7, 1836, was a Lorraine embroiderer and benefactor of the city of Nancy.
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:722
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé (9 January 1626, Paris – 27 October 1700, Soligny-la-Trappe) was a French abbot of La Trappe Abbey, a controversialist author, and a founding father of the Trappists.
Artist: de Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:679
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.
Date:
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1560