Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
Size 8.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré, was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Marie-Joseph “Eugène” Sue was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843
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Size 16 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Prince Henri of Lorraine (31 July 1570 – 26 November 1600), Count of Chaligny and Marquis of Moy, was a French nobleman and a commander in the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion.
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Charles III, Duke of Bourbon was a French military leader, the Count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne, and Dauphin of Auvergne from 1501 to 1523, then Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Forez and La Marche, and Lord of Beaujeu from 1505 to 1521.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Henri François d’Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be “the most learned magistrate France ever possessed”.
Artist: R.Tourniere
Date:1720
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur was born on 9 September 1558 in Nomeny, France, the eldest surviving son of Nicholas, Count of Vaudémont and Jeanne de Savoie-Nemours. In 1575, Mercoeur married Marie de Luxembourg, daughter of Sébastien de Luxembourg, which, together with the title of Duc de Penthièvre, also brought him rights to the crown of the Duchy of Brittany. He was made a knight of the Order of Saint Esprit in 1578.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who founded Romanticism in French literature
Artist: Girodet-Trioson
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Size 11 x 13 cms
Price £24.00
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Bonchamp-lès-Laval 1761-1844 Also known as Le Breton; pupil of Vincent and David; professeur de dessin et de perspective at the Institution des sourds-muets. The only recorded painting is a portrait (at Pontoise) which received the premier prix Montyon in 1834. A drawing dedicated by him to “Isabey père” in 1844 testifies to his friendship with another David pupil.
Artist: Bouvier
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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French professor of medicine who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Monnct
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Size 17 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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