Rivard studied in Paris and obtained a chair of philosophy at the college of Beauvais, which he left in 1749. He is the author of numerous educational manuals in mathematics and ancient languages, including Institutiones philosophicæ,
Size 8 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:170
Marquis de Sévérac, Comte de Rodez, Vicomte de Montal, Baron de Salvagnac, de Montclar and other places was a military leader under Louis XIII. He played a major role in the effort to return the southwestern provinces (Languedoc and Guyenne) to Catholicism. His military career was based on the Thirty Years’ War, in which he took part in the Rhineland and Franche-Comté, as well as in the fight against the Huguenots and the Turks in Malta in 1645
Artist: Moncornet
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Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:995
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology”.
Size 14 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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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.
Size 4 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2819
Catherine de’ Medici; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II.
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Size 15 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles IV (5 April 1604 – 18 September 1675) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
Artist: P.Aubry
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Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1568
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great
Artist: Frisch
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Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré, was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise, and Anna d’Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France
Size 17 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Duke of Lorraine, known as “the Great”. He took part in the civil wars of France and in 1588 joined the Catholic League. In 1559 he married Claudia, daughter of the French king Henry II of Valois (1519-1559). His daughter Cristina (1565-1636) married Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549-1609), Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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