French Collection (page 12)

John Law (1671 1729). Scottish economist. Dutch satirical
John Law (16711729). Scottish economist. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. In 1716 Law established the Banque Ge?ne?rale in France, a private bank

Romanesque Art. France. 12th century. Moissac Abbey. Tympanum of the south-west portico. Tetramorph and Pantocrator

Poster, Fly BEA from Manchester to Paris, by Leonard Ripley. Date: 1958

L a De Saint-Just
LOUIS ANTOINE DE SAINT-JUST French revolutionary Date: 1767 - 1794

Sculpture on Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Sculpture on the Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, a Romanesque revival building which was destroyed during the Second World War. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for French couture house of Boue Soeurs in New York
Advert for the French couture house of Boue Soeurs in New York, 1926. Based in 9 Rue de la Paix, Paris and with branches in San Francisco and Palm Beach

Scenes from Madame Sans-Gene (1925) starring Gloria Swanson, filmed in Paris. This lavishly produced romantic costume comedy-drama was directed by L鯮 ce Perret

Nimes, view of the country south, France
" These veteran olives are gnarled, split and twisted trunks, throwing out arms that break into a hundred branches. At a distance the same olives looks hoary

SPAD XIII with Le Prieur rockets attached for anti-balloon or anti-airship use. Extremely popular with French and American forces, over eight thousand were built by the time of the Armistice

Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille Lafayette
Four Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille Lafayette, formed of French commanded American volunteer pilots. The squadron was formed in April 1916

Jasmine, Jasminum officinale.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Sikh soldiers resting in a French building, WW1
Sikh soldiers (regiment unidentified but likely to be The 15th Sikhs) resting in a building on the Western Front during the First World War

Chartreux liqueur advertisement
Advertisement for La Liqueur des Peres Chartreux de Tarragone, a French aperitif, best enjoyed with a cigar if the picture is anything go by. Date: c.1895

Morning Call Coffee Stand, New Orleans, USA
Morning Call Coffee Stand, French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Claimed to be the citys most famous coffee drinking place. Date: circa 1940

BESSIERES, Jean-Baptiste (1768-1813). Marshal of the French Empire. Duke of Istria. He fought with Napoleon in the campaigns of Egypt, Spain and Russia

BUEIL, John V of (1406-1477). Noble French, companion in the military campaign of Joan of Arc. Fighting in a city square. Illustration in Le Jouvencel (1461-1466) Folio 155 r

Paris, France - College Royal or College de France. Date: circa 1789

A Corporal of the 1st / 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
A Corporal of the 1st/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion Highland Light Infantry in full marching kit. Hommage du Capitaine Andre. Tres sympathique souvenir. (Very warm memories of Captain Andre)

Autocar Poster -- Voiturette race at Boulogne, France
Autocar Poster -- Bablot driving a 3-litre Delage No.10 (left), chasing Boillots Peugeot, in the Voiturette race (for lightweight cars) at Boulogne, France. Date: 1911

Autocar Poster -- Paris-Amsterdam race
Autocar Poster -- Charrons white Panhard fitted with wheel steering (instead of a tiller) for the first time in racing history, for the Paris-Amsterdam race. Date: 1898

Autocar Poster -- Gordon Bennett race
Autocar Poster -- Thery driving a Richard-Brasier car to win the Gordon Bennett race for France. Seen here after overtaking a Wolseley Beetle driven by Cs Rolls for the British team. Date: 1905

Tank abandoned in a field, end of WWI
A tank abandoned in a field during the First World War, with a notice attached to it written in French saying, among other things, that it is forbidden to go inside. circa 1921

Siege of Gibraltar - 1
The Spanish and French besiege Gibraltar 1779 to 1783 : the biggest attack involves 48 vessels and 100, 000 men, but is repulsed by the garrison under general Eliott. Date: 13 September 1782

Basque Dancing Men
A troupe of male dancers from the Basque region (Pyrenees), France. Date: 1930s

Raoul Rigault
RAOUL RIGAULT French radical, prominent in the Paris Commune until he was shot by soldiers in the street, crying Vive la Commune ! Date: 1846 - 1871

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy. The largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1943

The Brighton ferry running between Dieppe and Newhaven
The Brighton cross-channel steamer ferry running between Dieppe and Newhaven. Leaving the French port. Date: 1910

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - Le Royal Picardy - France. Date: circa early 1930s

French mathematician and theologian Nicole Oresme
" French mathematician and theologian Nicole Oresme offers hs book to Charles V of France, nicknamed " the Wise". Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library."

Stacia Napierkowska - Silent Movie Star
Stacia Napierkowska (18911945) - a French actress and dancer, during the silent film era, appearing in 86 films between 1908 and 1926. Date: circa 1920

The Thistle - Yacht of H. I. M. Empress Eugenie
The Thistle - Yacht of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III Date: circa 1903

Advertisement for Vivier Freres leather gloves, featuring an elegant lady in a long black dress. 1924

Napoleon / Moscow Retreat
The French retreat from Moscow Date: 1812

Poster for Bonal Aperitif
Advertising Poster for Bonal, a French Aperitif wine from the Mountains of La Grand Chartreuse, featuring a large key and bearing the slogan Open up your Appetite as well as the warning Beware of

Oran - Place D Armes and the Town Hall
The Place D Armes and the Town Hall at Oran, Algeria

Poster advertising French railways to St Honore les Bains

Les Papillons - a Monte Carlo impression by Lewis Baumer
A colourful Mediterranean scene of Monte Carlo during the 1920s showing fashionably and gaily dressed women carrying paper parasols promenading along by the sea

Chargeurs Reunis shipping
Poster advertising the services of the French shipping line, Chargeurs Reunis, and the various routes they sail to Brazil, Indo-China, French West Africa and the Far East

SS Amerique being towed into Plymouth, Devon, 1874
Engraving showing the French Trans-Atlantic Companys steamship Amerique, which was one of the quickest trans-atlantic steamers of the time, 1874

Gaby Deslys / 1913
GABY DESLYS French singer and music hall artiste

Georges Jacques Danton
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON (1759 - 1794) a superb lithograph of the French Revolutionary leader, warts (or rather, smallpox) and all

Mining Safety Lamps
Safety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine

Pere Joseph
PERE JOSEPH exerted such behind-the-scenes influence in the French political scene that he became known as l eminence grise (the grey eminence) - much feared

Claude Bernard
CLAUDE BERNARD French physiologist who made important medical discoveries

Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a full-length photograph, wearing top hat, overcoat and scarf, and leaning on a walking stick

Le Chateau D'If fortress - Marseille, France
Le Chateau D'If, a fortress located on the Ile d'If, the smallest island in the Frioul, offshore from Marseille in southeastern France. Date: circa 1910s

Champagne Michel Gonet, Epernay, Champagne, France
Villa Signolle, Champagne Michel Gonet, on the Avenue de Champagne in Epernay, Champagne, Marne, Grand Est, France. The Avenue de Champagne is a 1km long street lined with mansions owned by champagne

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