French lawyer and politician from Lyon who was Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs for a few months in 1836 and was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1839 until the February Revolution of 1848.
Artist/Engraver Giroux, Émile
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3653
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera La traviata as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.Dumas fils was the son of Alexandre Dumas père , also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 25 x 20 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3638
Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux 1595–165) was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France’s leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: after Paulus Pontius
Size 17 x 12.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:833
French diplomat and historian, son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, was born in Paris in December 1753. He entered the army in 1769, served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under Rochambeau
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 14 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3046
Charles the Bold ,Charles le Téméraire, 1433 -1477, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Valois Duke of Burgundy.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: N.Hasitt
Size 30 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3035
The daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth married Henry VII in 1486, thus uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. She bore him seven children, four of whom survived infancy: Prince Arthur ,Henry VIII , Margaret, Queen of Scotland , and Mary, Queen of France and subsequently Duchess of Suffolk .
Subject gender: Female
Artist: W.Holl
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:1355x
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris.
Artist: Miger
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2110
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
Ref:2843
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
Ref:1202
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
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2367