Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval career and in 1785 was appointed to lead a scientific expedition around the world.
Artist: Pigeol
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.
Artist: J.F.Selamidt
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Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman is the older brother of Maurice Gabriel (1765-1835), Count of Caraman, and François Joseph, Duke of Caraman. He distinguished himself early in his diplomatic career. His family took him on trips to the main parts of Europe for this purpose. Mr. de Vergennes, Minister of External Relations, had recommended it to his diplomatic agents: it was also well received by Frederick the Great, Joseph II, and Catherine II. He became close with Prince Kaunitz, Potemkin, Poniatowski, Pitt and Fox. He met the Count of Saint-Priest in Constantinople. His travels lasted five to six years. Returning to France, in 1785 he married Mademoiselle de Mérode Westerloo, from a prominent Dutch family, and while waiting for a mission abroad, followed a military career.
Artist: Goutierre
Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Françoise de Graffigny, born Françoise d’Issembourg of Buisson d’Happoncourt, better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
Artist: Leveque
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Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Bavarian merchant and philantropist.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Durupt
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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French botanist and agronomist.
Artist: Goula
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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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
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Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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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
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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
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