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PCT4258420: Portrait of singer Emma Calvé (1858 - 1942), famous opera singer. Frequent in esoteric circles, it is mentioned among the relations of Abbé Béranger Saunière, priest of Rennes le Château, and thus linked to the mysterious treasure that would be buried in this Audois village. Photo by Reutlinger., Reutlinger Studio (1850-1937) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4258700: A scene dreamed of by cartoonist Grandville during a nightmare that just preceded his death. Georges Bataille wrote about this engraving: the criminal dreams that he has just hit a man in a dark wood.. Human blood was spread and, following an expression that presents a fierce image in mind, it sweated an oak. In fact, he is not a man but a tree trunk... bloody................. under the deadly weapon. The victim's hands are raised begging but in vain. Blood is still running. It is then that the enormous eye opens in a dark sky chasing the criminal through space, to the bottom of the seas where he devours him after taking the shape of a fish. March 1847, Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4258474: Courtesan, princess then saint, Liane de Pougy (Marie Anne Olympe Chassaigne, 1869 - 1950) is considered by Edmond de Goncourt as the prettiest woman of her century. It crosses Europe, stirring mad male and female passions (Charles de Mac Mahon, Roman Potocki, Maurice de Rothschild, Prince Georges Ghika, Natalie Barney etc). Friend of Cocteau, Proust, Colette, dancer and writer, she retired at the end of her life in the monastic order of Saint Dominica. Photo Reutlinger. Postcard 1902., Reutlinger Studio (1850-1937) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4259246: postcard war 1914-1918 - A child praying in front of a crucifix and a missel, thinking of his father, a French soldier in uniform that we see in medallion: I am far too small to go to war/But my dream, Lord is to be a military. Note that the photographer who performed the photomontage created a black melt effect, darkening and blurring the tip of the bayonet, as if to erase the cruel appearance of the weapon., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4258853: Jules Verne's novel “Les histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin”” (1901), Hetzel Collection/Extraordinary Voyages, illustration by George Roux. “From the deck of a sailboat, sailors watch a sea snake choking a whale, like a boa locks its prey in its rings.”, Roux, George (1853-1929) / Bridgeman Images