Born into an illustrious House of Lorraine, she was the younger daughter of Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, and his wife, Princess Margherita Gonzaga. Her elder sister was Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine. Claude Françoise died in Vienna, aged 35, having given birth to twins, Marie Anne and Anne Marie. She was buried at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, Lorraine.
Engraver Elias Wideman (active 1634-1666) Vienna
Size 17 x 13 cm
Price £24.00
Ref:3763/515
Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
From a photo by E.O.Hope
Published by the Bookman 1914
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3739/513
Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy (French: Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca and Piombino (1805-1814), Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1809-1814) and Countess of Compignano by appointment of her brother.
Artist/Engraver Wiliam Read
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3699
Medal for Tonkin – Land Forces – Médaille du Tonkin – Armée de Terre 1885
Circular silver medal with laterally-pierced barrel-shaped (belière à l’olive) suspension; the face with a helmeted female head representing the French Republic, inscribed ‘REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE’, signed ‘DANIEL DUPUIS’ (for the great French medallist and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis 1849-1899), all within a circular laurel wreath; the reverse inscribed with the battles ‘SONTAY, BAC-NINH, FOU-TCHEOU, FORMOSE, TUYEN-QUAN, PESCADORES’ encircled by the inscription ‘TONKIN CHINE ANNAM 1883-1885’ within a laurel wreath, with Paris Mint cornucopia silver assay mark; on correct ribbon with original pin
The medal was instituted on 6 September 1885 for the soldiers of the Expeditionary Corps led by General Millot who took part in the operations in Tonkin (now Vietnam), China and Annam during the years 1883 to 1885 that terminated with the Treaty of Tien-Tsing with China. These troops included elements of the Foreign Legion, Marine Infantry Regiments, Algerian Tirailleurs, Zouaves, Spahis and African Chasseurs.
Price £95.00
Ref:2437
Louis Dieudonné de Bourbon was crowned Louis XIV King of France on the 7th of June 1654 in Reims Cathedral.
Artist/Engraver Merian
Size 34 x 39 cms
Price £38.00
Ref:3705
Médaille commémorative de l’expédition du Tonkin
Circular silver medal with laterally-pierced barrel-shaped (belière à l’olive) suspension; the face with a helmeted female head representing the French Republic, inscribed ‘REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE’, signed ‘DANIEL DUPUIS’ (for the great French medallist and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis 1849-1899), all within a circular laurel wreath; the reverse inscribed with the battles CAU-GIA ‘SONTAY, BAC-NINH, FOU-TCHEOU, FORMOSE, TUYEN-QUAN, PESCADORES’ encircled by the inscription ‘TONKIN CHINE ANNAM 1883-1885’ within a laurel wreath, with Paris Mint cornucopia silver assay mark; on correct ribbon with original pin
The medal was instituted on 6 September 1885 for the soldiers of the Expeditionary Corps led by General Millot who took part in the operations in Tonkin (now Vietnam), China and Annam during the years 1883 to 1885 that terminated with the Treaty of Tien-Tsing with China. These troops included elements of the Foreign Legion, Marine Infantry Regiments, Algerian Tirailleurs, Zouaves, Spahis and African Chasseurs.
Price £155.00
Ref:2437m
Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life, and heir presumptive to the King of France from the age of 2 until he was 12. Henri was the father of Louis, le Grand Condé, the celebrated French general.
Artist/Engraver
Size 16 x 8 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3693
Claude de Lorraine, chevalier d’Aumale was a French churchman, noble and military commander during the French Wars of Religion. The second son of Claude, Duke of Aumale and Louise de Brézé
Artist/Engraver Thomas de Leu
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3688
Vincent Voiture, French Mannerist and Baroque Précieuses poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d’Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions
Artist/Engraver Jacques Lubin
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £12.00
Ref:3683
The son of a magistrate, Catinat was born in Paris . He entered the Gardes Françaises at an early age and distinguished himself at the Siege of Lille in 1667.He became a brigadier ten years later, maréchal de camp in 1680, and lieutenant-general 1688. He served with great credit in the campaigns of 1676–1678 in Flanders during the Franco-Dutch War, and was later employed in the persecution of the Vaudois in 1686. After taking part in the Siege of Philippsburg at the opening of the Nine Years War, he was appointed to command the French troops in the south-eastern theatre of war. In 1691 he crossed into the County of Nice, and captured the towns Nice and Villefranche.
Artist/Engraver: after Johann Georg Wille
Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3649