Category Archives: French

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1464

Apolline Aubert d’Aubigny viscountess Dumoulin 1755-1831

Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.

Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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1680

Jean-François Regnard

Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), “the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century”,[1] was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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1470

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: Adel Jarry de Mancy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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1050

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar 1643-1690

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
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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26

Louis XVI, the last king of France 1774–1792

Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. In 1770, he married Marie Antoinette.
Size 16 x 22.5 cms
Price £28.00

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85

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar 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.
Size 8 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00

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1190

Jules Dumont d’Urville 1790-1842

French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as d’Urville Island in New Zealand.
Artist: Alboth
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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2233

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte 1856-1879

Napoléon, Prince Imperial, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and his wife, Eugénie de Montijo. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he relocated with his family to England.
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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