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Charles V, Duke of Lorraine 1643-1690

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.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:1670
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

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2819

Charles de Lorraine 1524 -1574

Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine.
Size 4 x 7 cms
Price £14.00

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665

François d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville 1818-1900

François d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours
Date:
Size 14.5 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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1688

Charles IV Duke De Loraine

Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 11 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Joseph Marie Jacquard 1752-1834

French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the “Jacquard loom”), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.
Artist: Bonnefond
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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2986

Eugenie Garcia 1818-1880 Opera singer

Wife and student of Manuel García, Eugénie (née Mayer) García (1818-1880) sang with the Opera Comique in Paris and became a noted singing teacher.
Artist: STAHLSTICH
Date:
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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2450

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein 1776-1817

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

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2350

Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur, 1558-1602

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

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