Celebres Collection

Louise Adelaide d Orleans, later Abbess of Chelles, 1698-1743. She is depicted as a young woman before becoming a nun, wearing a simple morning dress in back with white fur trim

Marguerite of Lorraine at her wedding ball, 1581
Marguerite of Lorraine, sister of Queen consort Louise of France, sister-in-law to Henry III of France, wife of Anne Duke of Joyeuse, 1581

Jeanne de Sancerre, sister of Louis de Sancerre, Constable of France. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de

Heloise d Argenteuil, died 1164
Heloise d Argenteuil, nun, scholar and writer, best known for her romance with Abelard, died 1164. The large purse hanging from her belt is called an escarcelle (aumoniere or almoner)

Michelle de Vitry, widow of Jean Jouvenel des Ursins, died 1456. After her husbands death in 1431, she wore black mourning dress with the wimple and headband of a nun. From a painting on wood

Histoire populaire des ballons et des ascensions celebres... Advertisement for a book by A. Sircos on the history of ballooning, published in 1876 by F

Portrait d apres nature de quatre phisiciens celebres volants sans ballon. French cartoon shows Abbe Miollan as a cat and Janinet with bag of money()

Js Bach / Mus Celebres
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer

Gounod / Mus Celebres
CHARLES GOUNOD French musician and composer

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