Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Category Archives: French
Charlotte Eugénie d’Ailly, Countess of Chaulnes 1606-1681
Wife of Honoré d’Albert Marshal of France first Duke of Chaulnes,
Artist: Balthasar Moncornet 1600-1668
Date:
Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
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François-Christophe de Lévis-Vantadour 1603-1661
Duke of Damville, Count of Brion, first equerry of the Duke of Orléans, ninth viceroy of New France from 1644 to 1660. He was created Duke of Anville, after the death of his maternal uncle, Henri II, Duke of Montmorency
Artist: B.Moncornet
Date:
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles de Lorraine, Prince de Commercy 1661-1702
Charles de Lorraine, Prince de Commercy, was a French field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire and a military adivisor to Prince Eugene of Savoy. He acquired military prominence after leading imperial troops in the Great Turkish War, in the Nine Years’ War, and the War of Spanish Succession
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 1640-1701
Philippe, Duke of Orléans was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His older brother was the famous “Sun King”, Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660.
Size 9.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Dominique-François Rivard 1697-1778
Rivard studied in Paris and obtained a chair of philosophy at the college of Beauvais, which he left in 1749. He is the author of numerous educational manuals in mathematics and ancient languages, including Institutiones philosophicæ,
Size 8 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles De Loraine. Duke of Mayene 1554-1611
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.
Artist: Harrewyn
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:902
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière 1622-1673
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and more.
Size 7 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles Leopold De Loraine. 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
Artist: Fresne
Date:1659
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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Louis Armand de Bourbon 1661-1685
Prince of Conti from 1666 to his death. He was the son of Armand de Bourbon and Anne Marie Martinozzi, the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini, elder sister of Cardinal Mazarin. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of the Blood. He was a son-in-law of King Louis XIV of France, who was his namesake.
Artist: Larmessin
Date:1661
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1588