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
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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Category Archives: French
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jacques-Charles Dupont de l’Eure 1767-1855
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.
Date:1816
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Tancrède de Rohan 1630-1649
The putative son of Henri de Rohan , but it seems that he is actually the son of the Duke of Candale .
Artist. Balthasar Moncornet. (circa 1600-1668)
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Marie Louise Élisabeth of France 1727-1759
Marie Louise Élisabeth of France was a French princess, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort, Maria Leszczyńska, and the elder twin of Anne Henriette de France.
Size 16 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
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Jacques Auguste de Thou 1553-1617
French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
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