Joseph Justus Scaliger was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands
Size 4 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1943
Melchior Cardinal de Polignac was a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. Second son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac and Marquis Chalancon, Governor of Puy; and Jacqueline de Beauvoi
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2888
French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States. He is among the foremost French generals in military history.
Artist: Elisabeth G. Berhan
Date:
Size 24 x 32 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:2944
Charles the Bold, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois. His early death at the Battle of Nancy at the hands of Swiss mercenaries fighting for René II, Duke of Lorraine was of great consequence in European history
Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1931
François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (born François Certain Canrobert) was a French Marshal. He demonstrated ability during the Second French Empire while participating in the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Magenta, the Battle of Solferino and the Battle of Gravelotte.
Artist/Engraver W.J.Edwards
Size 25 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3668
Casimir-Pierre Périer was a prominent French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman. In business, through his bank in Paris and ownership of the Anzin Coal Co. in the Department of Nord, he contributed significantly to the economic development of France in the early stages of industrialization
Artist/Engraver Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron after Louis Hersent.
Size 25 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3667
Engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin 1736-1807
After Pieter Joseph Sauvage 1744-1818
Size 8 x 7 cm
Price £14.00
Stk.3582
French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde.
The Florentine banking and noble Gondi family had been introduced into France by Catherine de’ Medici; Catherine offered Jérome (Girolamo) de Gondi in 1573 the château that he made the nucleus of the Château de Saint-Cloud; his hôtel in the Faubourg Saint-Germain of Paris became the Hôtel de Condé in the following generation. The Gondi acquired great estates in Brittany and became connected with the noblest houses of the kingdom.
Artist/Engraver Picart
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3658
Duke de Persigny (born 1808, Saint-Germain-Lespinasse, France) French statesman who helped pave the way for Louis-Napoléon’s rise to power as the emperor Napoleon III.Born of a petty noble family, he served in the hussars from 1825 to 1831, when he was dismissed for participation in a political rebellion. Thereafter he devoted himself to the restoration of the empire and to the cause of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3644
French officer under King Louis XIV and Minister of War,
in the background the burning of Heidelberg
Engraver Johann Friedrich (the Elder), 1668-1716
Size 20 x 15 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3538