XEE4158298: The Arrest of Victor Schoelcher (1804-93) at the Saint Antoine Barricade, 4th December 1851 - The arrest of Victor Schoelcher (1804-93) faubourg Saint Antoine on 4 December 1851 - During the insurrection provoked by the coup d'état of Louis Bonaparte (future Napoleon III) of 2/12/1851 - engraving in “Histoire d'un crime””” (The History of a Crime) - by Victor Hugo - First edition illustrated 1879 -, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4136742: Galilee and the Inquisition: “” E pure so muove! “” (And yet it turns). The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) uttered his words in 1633 in his prison after being forced before the Inquisition to deny his theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Engraving from 1859., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4152984: The Tabula of Cebes or The Journey of Human Life (CEBES THEBANUS Greek philosopher) - (traditionally identified with the Cebes of Thebes of the Socramatic dialogues of Plato) - Cebes painting (Cebes by Thebes Greek philosopher of the end of the 5th BC - (allegory of the destinies of the human soul), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4153657: Captain Richard Burton, British explorer, writer, soldier and diplomat - Portrait of the British explorer, writer and linguist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) - Engraving in “” Picturesque History of Great Voyages in the Nineteenth Century””. 1877, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4143660: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) wrote the word “Battaglia” on the trunk of a laurel tree on the island of Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore), three days before the Battle of Marengo in 1800. Engraving from 1885 in “” Les arts et metiers illustres”” by Adolphe BITARD., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4182677: Card to play of the French Republic (1793) published in the National Convention on 21/09/1792, after the fall of the Kingdoms: the character of the philosopher under the traits of the French writer and philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4404674: The wolf knocks on the door of the biquet house. Illustration of the tale “Compere le Loup, Maitre Renard, Comere la Chevre et ses petits biquets”” after a fable by Jean de la Fontaine. In “” Tales from the home for the little ones””. Anonymous engraving of the 19th century., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images