Leopold the Good was Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to his death. Through his son Francis Stephen, he is the direct male ancestor of all rulers of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, including all Emperors of Austria
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:76
François Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Conti, was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother, Louis Armand de Bourbon, in 1685. Until this date, he used the title of Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2136
French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
Artist: De la Tour
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Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2470
French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1679
Jean-Louis de Rabutin , Count of Bussy, born in 1642 and died November 15, 1716 in Vienna , French military officer.
Subject gender: Male
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:693
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon.
Artist: Peter Aubry
Date:
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:192
Barbe Françoise Madeleine Didion, known as Madeleine Didion, born in Nancy in 1798 and died on January 7, 1836, was a Lorraine embroiderer and benefactor of the city of Nancy.
Artist: Durupt
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Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:722
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg’s Inventum Novum from Latin into French. Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg’s use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
Antoine Petit was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d’Azyr.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2326
Baron Jacques-Denis Cochin, born in Paris July 27, 1757 and died in Paris October 12, 1837, was French lawyer and politician.
He was appointed mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris in 1815, during the Restoration. He was elected on February 25, 1824, deputy for the 7th arrondissement of the Seine, by 636 votes against 421 for Claude-Louis Salleron.
Artist: Nargeol
Date:
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1742
Baron d’Arques, Duc de Joyeuse, Admiral of France, Governor of Normandie
Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse, Baron d’Arques, Vicomte then Duke of Joyeuse was a royal favourite and active participant in the French Wars of Religion. An intimate friend of Henry III of France,
Size 12.5 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1932