Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French (1782-1866) was the sixth daughter of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, and Maria Caroline of Austria. She married Louis-Philippe, Duc d’Orléans (later King of the French) in 1809
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Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:668
Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699) was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.
Subject gender: Female
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Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:670
Pierre VI Gilbert de Voisins lord of Voisins, Haute-Isle and Chantenesle (Mantois), marquis de Villennes, lord of Mauger, Bouconvillers, Châtelain de Villennes and de Médan, King’s Advocate at Châtelet (1703), adviser to Parliament (1707), master of requests (1711), member of the Finance Council (1713), 1st Advocate-General (1718, resigned 1737), State Councillor (1740) , 1st President of the Grand-Conseil (1744), ordinary State Councillor (1747), member of the Council for Dispatches (1757).
Artist: Charles Duplessis
Date:1772
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2103
Margaret of Valois , popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France at her husband’s 1589 accession to the latter throne as Henry IV.
Margaret was the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici and the sister of Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
Size 5 x 8 cms
Price £14.00
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Anne “Ninon” de l’Enclos also Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts.
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles X was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. For most of his life he was known as the Count of Artois. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile
Artist: Gustav Metzeroth
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Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2367
Last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.
Size 7.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:480
Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine.
Artist: Harreoun
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Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:882
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
Artist: Geitte
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Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2628
Commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.
Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a family of distinction in Burgundy, and his father, Léonor de Rabutin, was lieutenant general of the province of Nivernais.
Artist: Syfang
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Size 9 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:826