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LSE4327752: A hotel master wearing a platter of champagne cups, serves a festive table, on which a top hat has been abandoned and uses as a champagne bucket as well as a pump and a cane. The window door opening onto a full moon night view of the Sacre Coeur (Paris). Cover illustration for the novel "Midnight Place Pigalle" by Maurice Dekobra (Maurice Tessier) (1885-1973), edition of the reader's collection, 1925, Paris. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327757: A makeshift raft, for the emergency rescue of the inhabitants, in the flooded streets of St. Petersburg (Saint Petersburg, Russia), where the bustles of the offshore wind come down with such force that they impede the flow of the Neva River, which overflows from its bed and invades the neighborhoods of the city, plunging it into an economic disaster and social. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 13/12/1903. Selva Collection., Michel, P.H.G.V. (fl.1883-1903) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327794: Meeting at Arrabal, Paris, March 19, 2008 (from left to right): Claire Rado (artist), Olivier O. Olivier (painter), Fernando Arrabal (playwright), Fanchon Daemers (singer and musicologist), Penelope Chevillard, Bovnella Eruli (academic), Jack Vanarsky (sculptor), Maxime Godard (photographer) and back, Gustavo Korsatz and Dominica Lacaze (mathematician and economist). Photography Leonard de Selva, Paris 2008. / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327805: Meeting at Arrabal, in Paris, March 19, 2008 (from left to right): Olivier O. Olivier (painter), Fernando Arrabal (playwright), Fanchon Daemers (singer and musicologist), Penelope Chevillard, Bovnella Eruli (academic, face cache), Maxime Godard (photographer) and Jack Vanarsky (sculptor). And in the foreground, from the back: from left to right, Thieri Foulc (artist), Gustavo Korsatz, and Dominique Lacaze (mathematician and economist). Photography Leonard de Selva, Paris 2008. / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327867: The preparations for the 1900 exhibition, the statue of "Pegase retained by the bridle by the Renommee”, in golden bronze, by the sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910), is hovered on the top of one of the four pylons adorning the Alexander III Bridge. Engraving in "Le pelerin" 14/01/1900. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327986: The competition of fatty animals from the bovine, ovine, porcine and other families, assembles and exhibits for the first time, in the grand hall of the Grand Palais des Champs Elysees; this exhibition presents at the same time culinary specialities from all regions of France. Engraving in "Le pelerin" 10/03/1901. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328018: Engraving for the cover of "The pelerin" dated 6/09/1901, the unmanned devil, seated, with his feet the treacherous snake, patiently waits for the last day of the execution of the new law against unauthorized religious congregations, in the background, nuns leave their convent and a religious building collapses, cover for mobilize against the political movement of separation from church and state. Selva Collection., French School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328022: Monkey Mountain, along the Senegal River, shortly after the Gouina Falls (Mali). Engravure to illustrate the story of Lieutenant Mage's voyage in Western Sudan between 1863 and 1866, published in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”” under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328058: King Ahmadou presiding over a council or palabre of the Toucouleur empire in Segou Sikoro (Mali), the wise men sit and the warriors set, the king holds a Muslim rosary in his hands. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Western Sudan of Lieutenant (Navy) M.Mage, in 1863-1866, published in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”, under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328060: The transport of King Ahmadou's army on the Niger River during the rainy season caused him numerous shipwrecks and many losses of horses. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Western Sudan of Lieutenant (Navy) M.Mage, in 1863-1866, published in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”, under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4328080: The attack on Sansandig by the army of King Ahmadou (Toucouleur), where fled Bambara took refuge. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Western Sudan of Lieutenant (Navy) M.Mage, in 1863-1866, published in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”, under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4326408: Steps of justice: the question, or interrogation, charges him kneels, and slabs are piled up on his knees to motivate his answers. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan, in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”” published under the direction of Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris, 1867. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4326432: The Mikado (Emperor of Japan) squire field in Kioto (or Kyoto), training and training track for imperial horses. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan, in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”” published under the direction of Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris, 1867. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327236: The ardent Chapel of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) at Osborne, where its coffin is exhibited, along with the purple mantle bordered with ermine and the royal crown, and solemnly guarded by the grenadiers before its burial at Frogmore Chapel. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 17/2/1901. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327010: Events at Transvaal: Interview in Bloemfontein between, Mr. Kruger (1825-1904) President of Transvaal and Mr. Steijn, President of Orange State, to jointly formulate peace proposals to the English, on condition of their respective independence. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 26 /3/1900. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327053: A sodat stationed in front of the cattle market in Paris, excites an ox with his red trousers, which loads him, the soldier folds down by pushing the bayonet of his rifle into the sides, the animal died a few minutes later. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 27/5/1900. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4327238: The devouement of 2 soldiers, at Fontaine, near Dijon, to rescue children who, wanting to play slides on a frozen pond, fell into the water after the ice layer cede under their weight. Engraving in "Le petit journal" 3/3/1901. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images