French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics and ballistics.
Artist: Pierre Maleuvre 1740-1803 after Louis Vigee
Date:
Size 17 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3027
Tag Archives: French
Louis XIV, king of France 1643–1715
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.
Size 15 x 19.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:549
Léopold, I Duke of Lorraine 1679-1729
Leopold the Good was Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to his death. Through his son Francis Stephen, he is the direct male ancestor of all rulers of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, including all Emperors of Austria
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:76
François-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti 1664-1709
François Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Conti, was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother, Louis Armand de Bourbon, in 1685. Until this date, he used the title of Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2136
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674 -1762 French poet
French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
Artist: De la Tour
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2470
Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585
French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1679
Jean Louis de Bussy-Rabutin
Jean-Louis de Rabutin , Count of Bussy, born in 1642 and died November 15, 1716 in Vienna , French military officer.
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:693
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon.
Artist: Peter Aubry
Date:
Size 17 x 24 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:192
Antoine Petit and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets French physicians
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg’s Inventum Novum from Latin into French. Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg’s use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
Antoine Petit was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d’Azyr.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2326
Jacques Denis Cochin 1757-1837 politician
Baron Jacques-Denis Cochin, born in Paris July 27, 1757 and died in Paris October 12, 1837, was French lawyer and politician.
He was appointed mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris in 1815, during the Restoration. He was elected on February 25, 1824, deputy for the 7th arrondissement of the Seine, by 636 votes against 421 for Claude-Louis Salleron.
Artist: Nargeol
Date:
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1742