Favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies against the Cardinal Richelieu, the king’s powerful first minister.
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet
Size 11.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:357
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Charles de Lorraine, duke de Mayenne 1554-1611
French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588. In 1596, when he made peace with Henry IV of France, the wars were essentially at an end.
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:465
Charles Jean Francois Henault 1685-1770
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
Date:
Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2112
Henri II d’Orléans 1595-1663
Henri II d’Orléans, duc de Longueville or Henri de Valois-Longueville, a legitimated prince of France and peer of France, served as governor of Picardy, then of Normandy, and was a major figure during the Fronde
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2393
Charles de Valois, duke d’Angoulême 1573-1650
Charles de Valois was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and a memoirist
Artist: Nicolas de Larmessin
Date:
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1636
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé 1626-1700
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé (9 January 1626, Paris – 27 October 1700, Soligny-la-Trappe) was a French abbot of La Trappe Abbey, a controversialist author, and a founding father of the Trappists.
Artist: de Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:679
Mme.Deinsac
Frenchwoman known for her philanthropy in Toulon, featured in a book celebrating useful people, circa 1820-1830s
Artist: Letuaire de Toulon
Date:
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:729
Francois-Antoine Jecker 1765-1834
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2322
Louis Armand de Bourbon 1661-1685
Prince of Conti from 1666 to his death. He was the son of Armand de Bourbon and Anne Marie Martinozzi, the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini, elder sister of Cardinal Mazarin. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince of the Blood. He was a son-in-law of King Louis XIV of France, who was his namesake.
Artist: Larmessin
Date:1661
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1588
Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise 1614-1664
Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise was the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse.
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2043