Valentin Haüy was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school.
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2321
Category Archives: French
Émilie du Châtelet 1706-1749
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet was a French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s until her untimely death due to childbirth in 1749
Artist: Lemperiur
Date:
Size 28 x 25 cms
Price £38.00
Ref:2111
Louis XIV, 1638-1715 King of France and Navarre
Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history.
Artist Nicolas Fisher
Size 18.4 x 26.2 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:240
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674-1762
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:533
Charlotte Eugénie d’Ailly, Countess of Chaulnes 1606-1681
Wife of Honoré d’Albert Marshal of France first Duke of Chaulnes,
Artist: Balthasar Moncornet 1600-1668
Date:
Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:853
François-Christophe de Lévis-Vantadour 1603-1661
Duke of Damville, Count of Brion, first equerry of the Duke of Orléans, ninth viceroy of New France from 1644 to 1660. He was created Duke of Anville, after the death of his maternal uncle, Henri II, Duke of Montmorency
Artist: B.Moncornet
Date:
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:998
Charles de Lorraine, Prince de Commercy 1661-1702
Charles de Lorraine, Prince de Commercy, was a French field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire and a military adivisor to Prince Eugene of Savoy. He acquired military prominence after leading imperial troops in the Great Turkish War, in the Nine Years’ War, and the War of Spanish Succession
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2380
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 1640-1701
Philippe, Duke of Orléans was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His older brother was the famous “Sun King”, Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660.
Size 9.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:283
Dominique-François Rivard 1697-1778
Rivard studied in Paris and obtained a chair of philosophy at the college of Beauvais, which he left in 1749. He is the author of numerous educational manuals in mathematics and ancient languages, including Institutiones philosophicæ,
Size 8 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:170
Charles De Loraine. Duke of Mayene 1554-1611
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.
Artist: Harrewyn
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:902