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PCT4287397: Extreme ontion (extreme anointing, last sacraments): the Virgin Mary and the Devil (Satan) fight for the soul of a dying woman - death, Catholic religion - superstition - Heaven (Paradise) and Hell, good and evil - devotion, depart, beyond - engraving from a religious book beginning in the 20th century - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4288155: Destruction (demolition, demantelement) of the Bastille, 1789 to 1791 - Revolution Francaise - Illustration of Job (Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville) (1858-19131) for the book “La Cantiniere “” by G. Montorgueil, circa 1900 -, Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285817: First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): French soldiers (hairy) with their dog (mascot) in front of their “cagna” (hut or makeshift shelter brought into or near the trench, made of recuperation materials, here planks and tarpaulin canvas) - trench - front - negative anonymous photographic, private collection -, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286765: Title page of Emile Lavisse's book “” Tu seras soldat””, Armand Colin 1899 - Histoire d'un soldat francais, recits et lecons patriotiques d'instruction et d'education militaire - honour et patriotisme - in a classroom (school), the teacher encourages students to make careers in the army - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286669: The art of description in Honore de Balzac: portrait of Goupil, character of the novel Ursule Mirouet, cycle of Scenes de la vie de province (La Comedie Humaine) “” Also his face seemed to belong to a hunchback whose hump had been inside”” - engraving by Celestin Nanteuil in the edition Houssiaux 1853 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286172: Title page and frontispiece of a 19th century English edition of the novel “Ivanhoe” by Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish writer - on the left the black knight appears at the hermit's, on the right quarterstaff quarterstaff battle between the Saxon Ecuyer Gurth and the brigand The Miller (the thief Meunier) - Yeah. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286553: First World War 14-18 (1914-1918) - German soldier wearing a tip helmet saying “goodbye” to his wife (or fiancee) before going to battle - Zieht im Herbst die Lerche fort - “” Bei des Fruhlings Wiederkehr kommt die Lerch zuruck und Erinn'rung bringt sie her von vergangnem Gluck “” - song German people's departure (farewell) from the 19th century - German postcard framed in the colours of the German flag of the period: black, white and red -, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286952: Picturesque and touristic route of the Combe-Laval (Combe Laval) Drome (Vercors, Dauphine, Lente Forest) built in 1896 by the Forestry Administration at the evirons of St Jean-en-Royans (Saint Jean en Royans) - a young elegant tourist contemplating the landscape from the parapet against which a pile of pebbles from the drilling works of rock - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286641: Les hyppophages (hippophages = eaters of horses), engraving by Honore Daumier (1808-1879) from the newspaper “” Le Charivari “”: “” It is in the best conditions... it is the real time to eat it! “” - mackerel - butcher - horse meat - food scandal -, Daumier, Honore (1808-79) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286700: Photographic pose session at the beginning of the twentieth century (20th century, circa 1900) - family photo: the father photographs the mother (his wife) posing in the courtyard of the house with their three daughters. The five characters look towards another photographer, for a portrait in the abime of the photographic act - period sepia photo print - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4286785: Armee besieging a fortified city of Roman Antiquity using the turtle's device to reach the walls. Assault of fortifications: the sieges try to stop the progression of the attackers by throwing beams, stones and even mill wheels on their shields - 19th century engraving - / Bridgeman Images