French Collection (page 7)

PROUST / ILS 1900
MARCEL PROUST French writer relaxing on an ornate sofa

Adolphe Sax
ADOLPHE SAX French inventor of musical instruments

Conan Doyle / Houdini / Auto
Houdini with Conan Doyle, with whom he had a friendly feud, outside the Auto Club (does he mean the R.A.C. ?), London

DREYFUS
ALFRED DREYFUS French army officer and victim of injustice: his degradation

J-M Charcot / Maitres
JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT French neurologist

Jb Lully / Bust
JEAN BAPTISTE LULLY French composer and court musician: portrait bust

Foreign Legionnaire
A foreign Legionnaire, carrying the flag of honour on his back

Chasseurs a Cheval
Chasseurs a cheval, riding as Napoleons personal bodyguards

Simon De Montfort(Elder)
SIMON DE MONTFORT 5th Earl of Leicester French nobleman, took part in 4th Crusade, prominent leader of Albigensian Crusade, died at siege of Toulouse in 1218

Typing Pool
Women working in a French typing pool

Aeneid Title Page
Title-page for the second part of Virgils Aeneid, in a French edition of 1662, featuring gods above, battles below, and some of the protagonists

De Sade (Ray / 2)
Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, marquis de SADE French philosopher and author

French Palmistry Manual
L ART DE LIRE DANS LES LIGNES DE LA MAIN ( The art of reading the lines of the hand ) - a popular French manual

EMILE COUE French doctor who advised his patients to repeat daily, Every day - in every way - I am getting better and better!

Paris-Brest Race 1901
This year the Paris-Brest race, the senior French cycle race, is won by Maurice Garin

COSTUME FOR 1815-1820
French & German dress 1815-20 according to a later source: cut-away coat & white trousers, pelisse with mancherons & dresses with profusely trimmed hemlines

Wounded Saved by Dog
A wounded French soldier at the battle of the Marne is saved when the regimental dogs bark brings ambulance men to where he is lying

Vietnam / Map C1930 French
Card produced when La Cochinchine was a French colony

Prison Hulks
Captured French sailors were housed here during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

Imperialism Ww1
Napoleon to Edward VII: " I wanted to create a French Empire, you a British one -- now theres going to be a German one!"

French Flag 1908
An old soldier in German- occupied Strasbourg is permitted to display the French flag

Deep-Fat Fryer
An oval shaped deep-fat fryer with removable basket for frying fish and chips, or perhaps I should say pomme frites as it is French

Ibsen / Dolls House
A DOLLS HOUSE The famous French actress Suzanne Despres in the role of Nora

Attacking the Bastille
PRISE DE LA BASTILLE The Paris mob attacks the Bastille prison

Napoleon (Defeated)
NAPOLEON, emperor defeated at Fontainebleau, 1814

Napoleon (David)
NAPOLEON, emperor circa 1804

CRECY
At CRECY, 9000 English soldiers under Edward III defeat 30, 000 French under Philippe VI - a triumph of the English strategy of bowmen against cavalry

Charles Richet
CHARLES RICHET French scientist and psychical researcher, Nobel Prize 1913

PASQUALLY
MARTINEZ PASQUALLY French founder of Martinist esoteric sect

Napoleon in Study 1807
NAPOLEON, emperor of France, in his study, circa 1807

Folklore / Werewolves
French villagers hunt a werewolf

Charlemagne, King and Emperor
Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus. Karolus Magnus, Charles the Great), King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Romans from 800

Camille Bos, ballet dancer, rehearsing La Grisi
Mademoiselle Camille Bos, ballet dancer at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse, rehearsing La Grisi

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Abd El Kader, Algerian leader
Abd El Kader (Abd al-Qadir, El Amir Abdelkader), Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a resistance to French occupation in the mid-nineteenth century

Aircraft poster
French poster depicting a variety of aeroplanes and airships

Father Christmas
A really creepy French Father Christmas surprisingly doesn t terrify two young girls

Maurice Ravel / Nauer
MAURICE RAVEL French musician

French Riviera / J Simont
Le Touquet: sunbathers by the swimming pool

MATA HARI/WALERY PARIS
Mata Hari (1876 - 1917), (Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) Dutch-born exotic dancer, became a German spy in 1916, then a double agent for the French; she was executed

Map of Corsica. Italian engraving. 16th century

Belfort, France - La Place d armes, l Hotel de Ville, Castle and Lion of Belfort sculpture by Frederic Bartholdi. Date: circa 1910s

British machine gun carriers passing through French village
British Bren Machine-Gun Carriers passing through a French village on the way to a rendezvous in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Napoleonic War - Grenadier of the French Imperial Guard in Campaign Dress

French travel poster
Travel poster for the French National Railways promoting routes between Paris and London by way of the French and British coasts

French travel poster
French railway poster advertising the resort of Evian-les-Bains on Lac Leman in the Haute-Savoie region of France and depicting a view of the town

Freight poster
Poster advertising a French freight company for the transportation of containers by rail. A vast railway network ensures swift delivery

General Sarrail / Stamp
General MAURICE SARRAIL (1856 - 1929) commander of the third army at the battle of the Marne (1914) then the French forces in the Orient (1915-1917)

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