Category Archives: French

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1682

Jean Racine 1639-1699

Jean-Baptiste Racine 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such “examples of neoclassical perfection” as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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2843

Margaret of Valois 1553-1615

Margaret of Valois , popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France at her husband’s 1589 accession to the latter throne as Henry IV.
Margaret was the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici and the sister of Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
Size 5 x 8 cms
Price £14.00

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2358

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 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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2112

Charles Jean Francois Henault 1685-1770

Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
Date:
Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

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1793

Jeanne d’Albret, 1528-1572

Jeanne d’Albret, also known as Jeanne III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, becoming the Duchess of Vendôme, and was the mother of Henri de Bourbon, who became King Henry III of Navarre and IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France
Size 15 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

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3000

Jacques Callot 1592-1635

French printmaker best known for his highly detailed etchings. His works chronicled his life and included soldiers, biblical stories, hunting, drunken tavern scenes, beggars, and the aristocratic courts of the time.
Artist: Massne
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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2833

Gaston, Duke of Orléans 1608-1660

Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans , was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de’ Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood. As the eldest surviving brother of King Louis XIII, he was known at court by the traditional honorific Monsieur.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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