LSE4323507: Commemoration of the Battle of Solferino, June 24, 1859, during the Italian campaign, victory of the army of Napoleon III (1808-1873) allied with the Sardinian army, against the Austrian army of Emperor Francois Joseph I (1830-1916), conflict of the promise made by Napoleon III to King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy (Victor Manuel) (Vittorio Emanuele) (1820- 1878) to reunite Italy in exchange for the attachment of Nice and Savoy to the French territory. This battle mobilized nearly 220,000 soldiers, and is celebrated here by the figure of Colonel de Malleville (died 1859) whose bravery at the head of the 55th regiment led to a decisive victory. Engraving in “” Le petit journal”” 27/06/1891. Selva's collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4323645: The rescue of the victims of Aubervilliers, following the collapse of the friable terrain, weakened by the manoeuvres of the soldiers of the 16th artillery battalion, 5 victims were swallowed into the collapse. Engraving in “” Le petit journal”” 11/06/1892. Selva's collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4323748: The coup d'état on 14/04/1893 of Alexander I Obrenovic (1876-1903) proclaimed his majority and had the regents of Ristitch and Belimarkovich, as well as all the ministers of the former government. Engraving in “” Le petit journal”” 6/05/1893. Selva's collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4323936: A revolt aboard the building Ville de Saint Nazaire, which embarked from the Ile d'aix towards Guiana, 130 forcats and 170 relegues including many known anarchists (Leautier, Marpeaux, Catineau, Colombat...). Engraving in “” Le petit journal”” 10/09/1894. Selva's collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4309985: Portrait of Louis XVIII (1755-1824), nicknamed the Desire, King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824 - Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, king of France - engraving from “Instruction sur l'Histoire de France” by Charles Constant Le Tellier 1821, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4310048: Portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (1585-1642), Cardinal Duke of Richelieu, Principal Minister of King Louis XIII - Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of the King Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642 - engraving from “Instruction sur l'Histoire de France”” by Charles Constant Le Tellier 1821, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4404283: The cook responds to the princess that he prepares Riquet's wedding feast. Anonymous illustration for “” Riquet a la houppe””, tale by Charles Perrault (1628-1703), French writer. Imagery Marcel Vagne, Jarville Nancy, undated (late 19th century)., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4404574: The cat forces the peasants to say that the field in which they mow the wheat belongs to the Marquis de Carabas. Illustration of the tale “The cat botte” by Charles Perrault, 1697. In “” Tales from the home for the little ones””. Anonymous engraving of the 19th century., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images