XEE4143616: Famous necklaces: Josephine's pearl necklace. Consul Napoleon Bonaparte asks for the origin of the pearl necklace on the neck of his wife, Josephine de Beauharnais (Marie Josephe Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie, 1763-1814). She's lying to him not to tell him she bought them herself. Engraving from 1885 in “” Les arts et metiers illustres”” by Adolphe BITARD., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4143004: The English governor of Chateauneuf de Randon (Chateauneuf-de-Randon, Auvergne) surrendered and came to lay the keys to the square on the deathbed of Bertrand du Guesclin, on 13 July 1380 in front of whom the city was besieging. The connetable died, according to the legend, from drinking too fresh water from the pre de la Glauze fountain. Chromolitography of the late 19th century., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4144065: View of the monastery Mater Ecclesiae on the island of Saint Jules (Saint Jules) (San Giulio) on Lake Orta (Lake Cusio) in Italy. Engraving after a painting by William Collingwood Smith (1815-1887). In “The Illustrated London News” of March 22, 1858., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4144791: Death of Saint Lievin the Great (Livin, or Lebwin, or Livinus) as evangelizer of Flanders, martyrdom in 657/663. Engraving from 1868 in “Histoire de Belgique from primitive times to the end of the regne of Leopold I”” by Theodore Juste (1818-1888). Private collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images