Category Archives: French

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Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585

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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Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) 1522-1590

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

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Jacques Charles Dupont (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 as a result of the French Revolution of 1848.
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Lucien Bonaparte 1775-1840

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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635

Charles De Bourbon. Cardinal De Rouen 1523-1590

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

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