Charles III, Duke of Bourbon was a French military leader, the Count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne, and Dauphin of Auvergne from 1501 to 1523, then Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Forez and La Marche, and Lord of Beaujeu from 1505 to 1521.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2520
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675;
Size 6.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:912
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
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
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, 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 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 (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
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
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2322