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
Artist:
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
Michel de l’Hôpital 1507-1573
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1439
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet 1682-1768
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d’Olivet, Abbot of Olivet was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31
Artist: Le Vasseur
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Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2967
Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre 1569-1617
Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2338
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan 1678-1771
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d’Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen.
Engraving by Pierre-Charles Ingouf 1746–1800
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2108
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: Adele Jarry de Mancy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1477
Theodore de Beze 1519-1605
French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva.
Size 6 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1725
Olivier de Serres 1539-1619
Olivier de Serres was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d’Agriculture was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century.
Artist: Dequevillier
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1460