The son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and his wife, Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. A second cousin of Louis XIII of France he was a prince du Sang, those considered part of the royal family
Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:355
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
Date:1668
Size 15.5 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:575
Fought for the French in the Seven Years War, then transferred to the Austrian service; Field Marshal in the Imperial Army; relieved the siege of Mantua in 1796 but was taken prisoner by Napoleon when the emperor retook the city the following year, dying in captivity.
Artist: Jacob Adam
Date:1796
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1849
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2320
Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Austria, and Tuscany through his marriage to Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:584
Born in 1661 at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis de France was the first son of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain. During his lifetime as Dauphin, he was called “Monseigneur”, but was given the name “Grand Dauphin” after his death in 1711, to distinguish him from his son, the Duke of Burgundy.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:671
Francis I (1494–1547), who ruled France from 1515 until his death, was an intense admirer of Italian art, and from early on in his reign he courted the best Italian painters and craftsmen. When he conquered Milan in 1515, he saw at first hand the work of Leonardo da Vinci.
Date:
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:608
Valentin Haüy was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school.
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2321
The putative son of Henri de Rohan , but it seems that he is actually the son of the Duke of Candale .
Artist. Balthasar Moncornet. (circa 1600-1668)
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:312
Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons (May 1604 – 6 July 1641) was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and his wife, Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. A second cousin of Louis XIII of France he was a prince du Sang, those considered part of the royal family. Part of the faction who opposed Cardinal Richelieu and his policy of war with Spain, he was killed leading a revolt at the Battle of La Marfée in 1641.
Size 12 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2585