Last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.
Size 7.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:480
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Charles de Lorraine, 2nd cardinal de Lorraine 1524-1574
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.
Artist: Harreoun
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:882
Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 Marquis de Seignelay
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
Artist: Geitte
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2628
Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy 1618-1693
Commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoirist. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.
Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a family of distinction in Burgundy, and his father, Léonor de Rabutin, was lieutenant general of the province of Nivernais.
Artist: Syfang
Date:
Size 9 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:826
Duke de Richelieu 1696-1788
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu 13 March 1696 – 8 August 1788), was a French soldier, diplomat and statesman. He joined the army and participated in three major wars. He eventually rose to the rank of Marshal of France.
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1676
Jean-François Regnard
Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), “the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century”,[1] was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1680
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763
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
Gaston, Duke of Orléans 1608-1660
Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans , was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de’ Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood. As the eldest surviving brother of King Louis XIII, he was known at court by the traditional honorific Monsieur.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2833
Nicolas Thomas Baudin 1754-1803
French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer
Date:1750
Size 8 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1188
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle 1684-1761
French general and statesman. In 1741 he received control of a large army, with which it is said that he promised to make peace in three months under the walls of Vienna.
Artist: Mallini after de la Tour
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3030