The son of a silk manufacturer, Louis-Gabriel Suchet is considered to be one of Napoleon’s best marshals and he holds the distinction of being the only marshal who improved his reputation during the campaigns of the Peninsular War in Spain
Size 4.5 x 6 cms
Price £14.00
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Françoise Marie de Bourbon, légitimée de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d’Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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German poet
Size 5.5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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German writer of prose satires and publicist of the Enlightenment. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and he died at Dresden. In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe’s Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage
Size 5 x 8.5 cms
Price £14.00
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One of the great female humanist and feminist writers of fifteenth-century Italy. Cereta was the first to put women’s issues and her friendships with women front and center in her work.:
Size 18 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
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Matthias of Austria better known as Matthias of Austria was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 and King of Bohemia from 1611. He was a member of the House of Habsburg
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Size 8.5 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
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Gaius Plinius Secundus, called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias.
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles Albert once again took on the House of Habsburg in the War of the Austrian Succession, again in combination with France, succeeding so far as to be elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1742 (as Charles VII). However, the Austrians occupied Bavaria (1742–1744), and the Emperor died shortly after returning to Munich.
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Johanne Sophie Friederike Pauline von Schätzel , also Schaetzel, German soprano opera singer
Size 16.5 x 23.5 cms
Price £28.00
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