John I was a scion of the French royal family who ruled the Burgundian State from 1404 until his assassination in 1419.
Size 9.3 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:464
Category Archives: French
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar 1643-1690
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:631
Roger de Lorraine Knight of Guise, 1624-1653
The House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine He is the youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville. Received as a Knight of Malta at a very young age. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. He died at the siege of Cambrai on September 6, 1653, and was buried in the Saint Laurent collegiate church in Joinville3.
Artist: P.Aubry
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Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2182
Madeleine Didion 1798-1836
Barbe Françoise Madeleine Didion, known as Madeleine Didion, born in Nancy in 1798 and died on January 7, 1836, was a Lorraine embroiderer and benefactor of the city of Nancy.
Artist: Durupt
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Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:722
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé 1626-1700
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé (9 January 1626, Paris – 27 October 1700, Soligny-la-Trappe) was a French abbot of La Trappe Abbey, a controversialist author, and a founding father of the Trappists.
Artist: de Delpech
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:679
Karl V, Duke of Lorraine. 1643-1690
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697.
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Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1560
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