Italian priest & writer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Francois
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1473
Abbé Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron 1760-1821
French Roman Catholic priest who founded a number of social and educational institutions, especially while in exile in England, and was a prolific author of pious tracts
Artist: Adel Jarry de Mancy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1470
François-Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron 1671-1755
Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron was a French Jesuit who became Bishop of Marseille.
Artist: Dequevauviller
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1469
Adelaide Raymonde de Malézieu, Countess of Carcado 1755-1808
Attended the court of Louis XVI where she was part of the circle of Marie Antoinette. She founded the Work of the Neglected Children to help orphans. She married in 1783 Louis Gabriel The Seneschal of Kercado.
Artist: Clara Nargeol
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1468
Marie Jeanne Vignon 1792-1832
Frenchwoman who in 1821 pulled her paralysed partner in a handcart from Bordeaux to Paris in hope of finding work there.
Artist: Adle J.de Mance
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1467
Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne) 1477-1514
Anne of Brittany was Duchess of Brittany from 1488 until her death, and queen consort of France from 1491 to 1498 and from 1499 to her death. She is the only woman to have been queen consort of France twice.
Artist: Boulanger
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1466
Clémence Isaure
A quasi-legendary medieval figure credited with founding or restoring the Acadèmia dels Jòcs Florals or Academy of the Floral Games. She is supposed to have left a legacy to fund awards in the form of gold and silver flowers that the city would award annually to the best poets.
Artist: Richomme
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1465
Apolline Aubert d’Aubigny viscountess Dumoulin 1755-1831
Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1464
Johannes Kleberger 1486-1446
Bavarian merchant and philantropist.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1463
Gustav von Schlabrendorf 1750-1824
Gustav, Count of Schlabrendorf, described in various sources as a “citizen of the world”, was a political author and an enlightenment thinker.
Artist: Goutiere
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1461