Nationale Collection

Music / Opera / Verdi / Aida
AIDA Mlle Soyer as Amneris in a production at the Academie Nationale de Musique, Paris

Gambling / Lotteries
FRANCE Drawing the winning number in the Loterie Nationale

Sfecmas Nord 1402 Gerfaut Delta-Wing Experimental Resear?
Sfecmas Nord 1402 Gerfaut Delta-Wing Experimental Research Aircraft Parked Date: 1950s

Sfecmas Nord 1405 Gerfaut II / 2 Delta-Wing Experimental?
Sfecmas Nord 1405 Gerfaut II / 2 Delta-Wing Experimental Research Aircraft Parked Date: 1950s

Nord 1002 Pingouin II G-ASTG (msn 183), previously F-BGKI, built in 1945 by Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord (SNCAN)

Poster, For the Liberty of the World, Statue of Liberty
Poster, For the Liberty of the World, Subscribe to the French Loan, Statue of Liberty, New York Harbour, Banque Nationale De Credit, by SEM (Georges Goursat 1863-1934), 46ins. x 30ins

Hurel-Dubois HD. 34 F-BHOO
Hurel-Dubois HD.34 F-BHOO (msn 01), one of eight operated by the Institut Geographique Nationale (IGN) from Creil. (later F-AZNH) Date: circa 2003

Volta (X62)
Marine Nationale Francaise - Volta (X62), a Mogador-class destroyer. Scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942. (Marine Nationale Francaise - French Navy) Date: circa 1940

Stampe et Vertongen SV. 4C N12426
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4C N12426 (msn 677), built by SNCAN (Societe Nationale des Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) in France. Date: circa 1990

Stampe et Vertongen SV. 4C F-GHON
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4C F-GHON (msn 1147), built by SNCAN (Societe Nationale des Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) in France. Date: circa 1990

Stampe et Vertongen SV. 4C D-EHBL
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4C D-EHBL (msn 216), built by SNCAN (Societe Nationale des Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) in France, in 1947. Date: circa 1990

SNCASO SO-P1 Ferblantine 01, during assembly at the SNCASO factory in Vichy France. First flown in 1941, this glider was hidden when Vichy France was occupied by the Germans

Stampe et Vertongen SV. 4C G-AYJB
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4C G-AYJB (msn 1204), Built by SNCAN (Societe Nationale de Constructins Aeronautiques du Nord), in France. Date: circa 1990

LOUIS XVI ON TRIAL
Louis XVI - known as citoyen Louis Capet - appears before the Convention Nationale to hear the charges brought against him. He will be found guilty and condemned to die. Date: 25 December 1792

SNCAC NC. 854S G-BCGH
SNCAC NC.854S G-BCGH (msn 122). (SNCAC - Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Centre, aka Aerocentre) Date: circa 2000

SNIAS SN. 601 Corvette F-WRNZ 158
SNIAS SN.601 Corvette F-WRNZ 158 (msn 2), the second production SN.601, at Le Bourget Airport for the 1973 Paris Air Show, with show serial number 158

SNIAS SN. 601 Corvette F-WUAS 157
SNIAS SN.601 Corvette F-WUAS 157 (msn 1), the first production SN.601, at Le Bourget Airport for the 1973 Paris Air Show, with show serial number 157

Fashionable guests at a masquerade ball, 1800. Woman in medival headdress, man in hussar uniform, man in striped breeches and bicorn, woman in mask and hooded habit. An opera ball, Year VIII, 1800

In the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1897. The search for bygone fashions. Two women in dresses with corseted waists

Title page with illuminated lettering and red wax seals. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Anthony Day and J.H

Ferdinande Philippe, Duc d Orleans 1810-1842. In the uniform of the artillery of the Garde Nationale. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la

Fashions of bourgeois men of Paris, reign of King Francis I of France. Handcoloured lithograph after a miniature in a manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Nicolas Xavier Willemin II 191)

Louise of Savoy, Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d Angouleme, mother of King Francis I, 1476-1532. Handcoloured lithograph after a miniature in a manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale

Jean I de Grailly, comte de Foix et de Bigorre 1382-1436. He wears a knee-length surtout and a gold woven belt with gold acorns hanging from it

Gerarde Cassinel, lady of honour to Queen Isabelle of Bavaria, daughter of Guillaume III Cassinel, chamberlain to King Charles VI, 15th century

Manufacturing Sevres porcelain
A very beautifully shot postcard photograph showing the colouring workshop (preparing the background colours) for Sevres porcelain, particularly the famous Sevres Blue - Sevres Factory, France

Stampe et Vertongen SV. 4C
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4C F-BCFF (msn 185). 29 December 1959: Built under licence by Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord and delivered to Societe Air Caen, Caen

S. N. C. A. N. 1203 Norecrin F-BEUE
S.N.C.A.N. 1203 Norecrin F-BEUE (msn ). (SNCAN - Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) Date: circa 1960

S. N. C. A. N. 1203 Norecrin OE-DAW
S.N.C.A.N. 1203 Norecrin OE-DAW (msn 327). First delivered to Switzerland as HB-DAW, on 2 August 1955, then exported to Austria, on 7 December 1955 as OE-DAW and written off in 1978

SNCAN NC. 854 F-BFIE
SNCAN NC.854 F-BFIE (msn 16), of Aeroclub Air France at Toussus Le Noble. (SNCAN - Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) Date: circa 1970

SNCAN NC. 854 F-BDZT
SNCAN NC.854 F-BDZT (msn 10). (SNCAN - Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord) Date: circa 1960

Hurel-Dubois HD. 34 F-AZNH
Hurel-Dubois HD.34 F-AZNH (msn 01, formerly F-BHOO) providing shelter at an air display. Previously one of eight operated by the Institut Geographique Nationale (IGN) from Creil. Date: circa 2003

Hurel-Dubois HD. 34 F-BICU
Hurel-Dubois HD.34 F-BICU, of the Institut Geographique Nationale (IGN), the French government photo-surveying and mapping agency, somewhere in Africa, probably Cote d Ivoire or Senegal

The Island of aircraft carrier Foch or Clemenceau
Marine Nationale - The Island of aircraft carrier Foch or Clemenceau, (two almost identical ships, to which the French Navy did not apply distinctive markings, making identification very difficult)

Forward elevator of aircraft carrier Foch or Clemenceau
Marine Nationale - The forward elevator of aircraft carrier Foch or Clemenceau, in use as a volley ball court, whilst lowered, to prevent losing balls overboard

SNECMA ATAR 101B at the Paris Salon Aeronautique 1949
A SNECMA ATAR 101B turbojet engine at the XVIIIeme Salon Aeronautique du Paris 1949 at the Grand Palais in central Paris, (flying demonstrations were given at Orly Airport)

When news arrives that the Prussians are attacking Verdun, the Garde Nationale leaves Paris to defend the country, while crowds cheer them on the Pont Neuf Date: September 1792

MARTYRS AT MONTAUBAN
Martyrs of liberty : corpses litter the street of Montauban when troops of the Garde Nationale, still loyal to the ancien regime, fire on revolutionary demonstrators. Date: 10 May 1790

Garde Nationale leaving Paris to join the army
The Garde Nationale leaving Paris to join the army in Revolutionary War. Date: September 1792

Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort (1533 / 1534-1583) Dutch pai
Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort (1533/1534-1583) Dutch painter. Aphrodite disarms Eros. Nationale Gallery Prague. Czech Republic

The Bibliotheque Imperiale (now Nationale), Paris
A view of the Bibliotheque Imperiale (now Nationale), Paris Date: 1868

Souscrivez pour la victoire. Banque Nationale de Credit. Victory flying over the battlefield and bringing the allies into the war. Date 1916. Souscrivez pour la victoire. Banque Nationale de Credit

La guerre est l industrie nationale de la Prusse... Attaques, nous ne faisons que nous defendre au nom de la liberte et pour sauver notre existence. General Petain, juin 1917

Stylised Art postcard for the National Swiss Fair of 1924
Stylised Art postcard for the National Swiss Fair, Switzerland. The rather enigmatic image shows a young Swiss man (note the cross belt buckle)

Rue Nationale, Siagon, Indo-China, Vietnam, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Frech Revolution 1787-1799. Louis XVI was forced to adopt the Constitution of 1791 by the National Assembly. Engraving by Meyer Heine, 1900. Colored

Leon Gerard
LEON GERARD French statesman, member of the Assemblee Nationale in the eventful year 1848. Date: circa 1848

Jean Duchesne
JEAN DUCHESNE French archivist, conservateur a la Bibliotheque Royale (now the Bib. Nationale) Date: 1779 - 1855

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