French Collection (page 5)

Advert / Travel French Alp
Poster inviting you to go winter-sporting at Mont- Revard, in the French Alps

Various coopers tools
Various tools used by a cooper or barrel maker, including mallets, a hammer, a hatchet and a knife

Tools used by a saddler and upholsterer
Various tools used by a saddler and upholsterer, including pliers, pincers, skewers, needles and a knife

Poster advertising China Tea, marketed by the Compagnie Coloniale. A smiling Chinese man in traditional dress, with a long pigtail, sits on a large tin of tea enjoying a steaming cup

Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Poster advertising Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the French shipping company, illustrated by the S.S. Ile de France, its first ship to be decorated in Art Deco

Wine shipping poster
Ste Navale de L Ouest, transport des vins - poster for a French wine shipping company showing men on the dock waiting to load barrels of wine on to a steamship

Messageries Maritimes poster
Poster illustrated by a stork advertising the arrival of the Felix Roussel of the Messageries Maritimes French steamship line

World War One soldiers
On les a souscrivez a la London County and Westminster Bank (Paris) Ltd : poster illustrated by three World War One soldiers, Scots Guard, French and British infantrymen in battle

Poster for the 13th Monaco Grand Prix on 22nd May 1955

Owen Jones Renaiss 78
Ornaments copied from specimens of Hispano-Arabic, French and Italian earthenware, from Italian towns of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries

Polaire / Boyer Postcard
POLAIRE French music hall entertainer, in an elegant white dress

100 Years War / Agincourt
Henry V leads the English to victory at Agincourt, defeating an army four times as large : the French lost 8000, the English 400

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1926
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally

Art / Hogarth / Roast Beef
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French

Rama IV (Mongkut)
CHAO FA MONGKUT Pictured with Queen Rampuy. Began work on modernising Siam (Thailand). Relinquished Cambodia to French in 1867

Goubet Submarine / 1885
Designed by Claude Goubet in 1885: the first electrically powered submarine. Seen here being used by the Russian Navy

Illicit / Cuckold 1840
The hunter and his horns

18th C French Kitchen
Several cooks work in a French kitchen to prepare and bake pies and pastry, a hare and a bird pie of some kind, perhaps pigeon

Edith Piaf [Head]
EDITH PIAF French singer

Abbe Julio Exorcises
A French renegade priest and practising magician, the Abbe Julio, performs a ceremony of exorcism in his private chapel

Arthur Rimbaud / Luque
JEAN-NICOLAS-ARTHUR RIMBAUD Cartoon of the French poet and leading influence on Symbolist movement

Abraham-Louis Breguet
ABRAHAM-LOUIS BREGUET French watchmaker, known for instruments of great accuracy

Battle of Salamanca
Wellington decisively defeats the French under Marmont at Salamanca, destroying the French army at relatively little cost

Guardian Angel
A Guardian Angel walks hand in hand with a good little French girl

St Bernard of Clairvaux
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX French religious who established the monastery at Clairvaux

Marie Antoine Careme French Cook

Events / Napoleonic War
BATTLE OF JENA Murat leads the French cavalry to victory against the Prussians

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in wedding costumes
Louis XVI, King of France (1754-1793, reigned 1774-1792) with his wife Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) in their wedding costumes at the ages of 15 and 14 respectively

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (2 of 2)

Mademoiselle Chauvin the first female barrister 1901
Mademoiselle Chauvin, the first female barrister, illustrated as she is sworn in at the French Bar. The Sphere describes the mixed reaction to Mdlle Chauvins right to practise

Caen, France - Saint Etienne Church and Abbey (Abbaye aux Hommes), semi-circular apse and high school. Date: circa 1910s

Nice, France - Les Ponchettes, le Chateau and Mont Boron
Nice, France - Les Ponchettes (formerly row of small houses of local fishermen, nowadays mostly Galleries), the Chateau and Mont Boron. circa 1930s

The English Promenade - Nice, France circa 1930s

Hundred Years War. 1337 to 1453. Battle. Miniature. 15th c
Hundred Years War. Conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne. Battle. Miniature. 15th century

French Boules Players
Four French peasants in sabots and a barefoot boy judge the skill of the players in a game on a bumpy grassy field. Date: early 20th century

Poster advertising Ryst Armagnac. Date: 20th century

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and his family
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1769-1821), pictured with his two wives, Empress Josephine (de Beauharnais) (1763-1814) and Empress Marie-Louise (of Austria) (1791-1847)

Joan of Arc - French heroines home at Domremy, France
Joan of Arc - French heroines home/birthplace (on 12th January 1412) at Domremy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, Lorraine, France and a statue of her. Date: circa 1910s

Poster advertising French railways to Fontainebleau
Poster advertising French railways to and from the Palace and Forest of Fontainebleau

Poster for Speedboat Race - Lake Garda
A Poster for an International Speedboat Race, held on Lake Garda, Italy in May 1931

Battle of Solferino
Austrian forces, opposing the unification of Italy, are defeated in a decisive battle at Solferino, near Verona, Italy, by French and Piedmontese forces

Golf / French Lady
A French lady golfer prepares to hit the ball

Charles De Gaulle
CHARLES DE GAULLE (1890 - 1970) French soldier, general and statesman, depicted as President du Comite National

Maurice Ravel / Photo
MAURICE RAVEL French musician

Protective Dress
Protective dress worn by French doctors attending plague victims in Marseille and elsewhere

Bricklayer (Series)
Le macon - BRICKLAYER - constructs a brick wall

Richelieu (Champagne)
Armand-Jean Duplessie, cardinal and duc de RICHELIEU French prelate and statesman, minister and controller of Louis XIII, noted for suppressing the Huguenots

Reception of Apprentice
An blindfolded apprentice is received into a French Masonic Lodge : he bares his right leg as part of the ceremony

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