Antoine-Augustin Parmentier 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign in France
Artist: A.Dulilloin
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Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:735
Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1641
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny was a noble and diplomat from the Spanish Netherlands. He was born as the son of Jozef van Montmorency, Count of Nevele and Anna van Egmont the Elder, and was the younger brother of Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult. Soult was one of only six officers in French history to receive the distinction of Marshal General of France
Artist: Louis David
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Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2504
Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.:
Size 8 x 8 cms
Price £14.00
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris.
Artist: Miger
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Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2110
Baron Jacques-Denis Cochin, born in Paris July 27, 1757 and died in Paris October 12, 1837, was French lawyer and politician.
He was appointed mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris in 1815, during the Restoration. He was elected on February 25, 1824, deputy for the 7th arrondissement of the Seine, by 636 votes against 421 for Claude-Louis Salleron.
Artist: Nargeol
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Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Imperial field marshal and war councilor at the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War .
Date:1620
Size 12.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands
Artist: J.W. des Hauvents
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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