Charles IV 1604-1675 was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis, and again from 1661 until 1675 (his death).
Size 33 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3485
Category Archives: French
LOUIS PHILIPPE COMTE DE SEGUR 1753-1830
French diplomat and historian, son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, was born in Paris in December 1753. He entered the army in 1769, served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under Rochambeau
Subject gender: Male
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Size 14 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3046
Charles the Bold 1433-1477
Charles the Bold ,Charles le Téméraire, 1433 -1477, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Valois Duke of Burgundy.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: N.Hasitt
Size 30 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3035
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
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Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1682
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle 1684-1761
French general and statesman. In 1741 he received control of a large army, with which it is said that he promised to make peace in three months under the walls of Vienna.
Artist: Mallini after de la Tour
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Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3030
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
Ref:2843
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
Ref:2358
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
Ref:2112
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
Ref:1793
Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France 1554-1592
Elisabeth of Austria was Queen of France from 1570 to 1574 as the wife of King Charles IX. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain.
Size 16.5 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:448