French Roman Catholic priest, preacher and philanthropist. He founded in 1780 Paris’s Hôpital Cochin, as the hospice of Saint-Jacques du Haut Pas, in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques.
Artist: E.Conquey
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1476
Françoise Marie de Bourbon, légitimée de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d’Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2444
French soldier and politician, conqueror of Algiers (1830), for which he received the title of marshal of France.
Artist: Julien
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2219
French chemist and a contemporary of Antoine Lavoisier. Fourcroy collaborated with Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, and Claude Berthollet on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work that helped standardize chemical nomenclature
Date:1819
Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:538
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout, better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Date:1804
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:601
Fought for the French in the Seven Years War, then transferred to the Austrian service; Field Marshal in the Imperial Army; relieved the siege of Mantua in 1796 but was taken prisoner by Napoleon when the emperor retook the city the following year, dying in captivity.
Artist: Jacob Adam
Date:1796
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1849
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign
Size 7 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2384
General Antoine Drouot, Comte Drouot 1774 -1847 was a French officer who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Drouot is one of a select group who were present at both the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) and the Battle of Waterloo (1815).Drouot’s name is inscribed on the western pillar under the Arc de Triomphe.
Artist: H.Garnier
Date:
Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:666
Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luisa; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular ‘Queen of France’ when her husband assumed the title of king in 1795 upon the death of his nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, until her death. She was never practically queen, as she died before her husband actually became king in 1814.
Date:
Size 9.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1685
Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, was the third son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:636