Duke de Persigny (born 1808, Saint-Germain-Lespinasse, France) French statesman who helped pave the way for Louis-Napoléon’s rise to power as the emperor Napoleon III.Born of a petty noble family, he served in the hussars from 1825 to 1831, when he was dismissed for participation in a political rebellion. Thereafter he devoted himself to the restoration of the empire and to the cause of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3644
Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. His wife was Eugénie de Montijo
Engraver. Johann Haller. Vienna
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3549
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675;
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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French officer under King Louis XIV and Minister of War,
in the background the burning of Heidelberg
Engraver Johann Friedrich (the Elder), 1668-1716
Size 20 x 15 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3538
Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonged. During his reign, the Burgundian State reached the apex of its prosperity and prestige, and became a leading centre of the arts
Size 12 x 7 cm
Price £12.00
Ref:3534
French physician and botanist. He came from nobility and his uncle, Guy de La Brosse, had founded the Royal Gardens. Fagon was director of the gardens too. His substitute professors were Gilles-François Boulduc, Antoine de Saint-Yon and Étienne François Geoffroy.
Artist/Engraver Forestier
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3654
French lawyer and politician from Lyon who was Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs for a few months in 1836 and was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1839 until the February Revolution of 1848.
Artist/Engraver Giroux, Émile
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3653
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera La traviata as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.Dumas fils was the son of Alexandre Dumas père , also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 25 x 20 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3638
“ Le pape va en cérémonie prendre possesion du Pontificat dans l’Eglise St Jean de Latran qui est la capitale de toute celles qui relevent de la juridiction du Pape dans la Chrétieneté ”
from Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde.
by Bernard Picart 1673-1733
Large antique copper plate engraving on paper 43 x 54 cm
Full margins original centre fold.
Price £68.00
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Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux 1595–165) was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France’s leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: after Paulus Pontius
Size 17 x 12.5 cms
Price £28.00
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