Bishop of Bayeux
Subject gender: Male
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Size 8.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: French
Michel de l’Hôpital 1507-1573
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1439
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet 1682-1768
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet, Abbot of Olivet was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31
Artist: Le Vasseur
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2967
Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre 1569-1617
Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2338
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan 1678-1771
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d’Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen.
Engraving by Pierre-Charles Ingouf 1746–1800
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2108
Abbé Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron 1760-1821
French Roman Catholic priest who founded a number of social and educational institutions, especially while in exile in England, and was a prolific author of pious tracts.
Artist: Adele Jarry de Mancy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1477
Theodore de Beze 1519-1605
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
Olivier de Serres 1539-1619
Olivier de Serres was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d’Agriculture was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century.
Artist: Dequevillier
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1460
Jean-Pierre-Joseph d’ Arcet 1777-1844
French chemist and industrialist, head of many factories in Paris, and member of no less numerous official, governmental or academic bodies.
Artist: Gerard
Date:1834
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:742
Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin 1664-1736
Marquis of Antin, Gondrin and Montespan (1701), then 1st Duke of Antin (1711) French nobleman.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1115