French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.
Size 24 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2476
Tag Archives: French
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout 1770-1823
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:677
Claire Charlotte Eugénie d’Ailly Duchess de Chaunes
Claire Charlotte Eugénie d’Ailly was a French aristocrat, born in Chaulnes on April 26, 1606, died in Magny (now Guiscard) on June 15, 1681, married to Honoré d’Albert, first Duke of Chaulnes, Marshal of France.
Artist: B.Moncornet
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1566
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier 12 August 1737 – 13 December 1813) was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign in France
Artist: A.Dulilloin
Date:
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:735
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat 1700 – 1768
Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2107
Lucas Trelcatius 1542-1602 Theologian
He died in the Leiden plague epidemic of 1602. His son Lucas Trelcatius the younger replaced him as preacher and professor in 1603, but died himself in 1607 after publishing Institutiones Theologicae.
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2342
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse 1741-1788
Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval career and in 1785 was appointed to lead a scientific expedition around the world.
Artist: Pigeol
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1453
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
Ref:532
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
Ref:216
Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663-1736
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano, better known as Prince Eugene, was a field marshal in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Artist: Eggelhoff
Date:
Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2174