French legal expert. He was prominent among the legal humanists or mos gallicus school, which sought to abandon the work of the medieval Commentators and concentrate on ascertaining the correct text and social context of the original works of Roman law
Artist: N.L’avmeffin
Date:
Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1003
French lawyer and statesman. He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic, after the collapse of the July Monarchy as a result of the French Revolution of 1848.
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:532
Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1799 to 1800 and as the president of the Council of Five Hundred in 1799.
Size 7.5 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:216
Anne “Ninon” de l’Enclos also Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts.
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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French nobleman, revolutionary and politician, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp.
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2233
Charles de Valois was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and a memoirist
Artist: Nicolas de Larmessin
Date:
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1636
Charles de Bourbon, known as the Cardinal de Bourbon, was a French noble and prelate. He was the Archbishop of Rouen from 1550 and the Catholic Ligue candidate for King of France from 1589. Born the third son of Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme and Françoise d’Alençon he was destined for a career in the church:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:635
Charles IV (5 April 1604 – 18 September 1675) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1568
Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:1833
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1454
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet 1630-1670
Date:1657
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
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