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XEE4162826: Gothic architecture: view of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Clermont Ferrand (Clermond-Ferrand), Puy de Dome (63), during the visit of Napoleon III and the Impress Eugenie de Montijo in 1862. Engraving in “” Le Monde Illustré”” n°275 of 19 July 1862., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293668: Saint Wandrille de Fontenelle, also known as Wandon (Saint-Wandrille, Saint-Wandon), a Merovingian monk not around the year 600 near Verdun; died 22 July 668 in Saint-Wandrille-Rancon in the abbey of Fontenelle which he had founded. Engraving at the beginning of the 20th century after the pattern of an ancient medal. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293709: Solfatare de Pouzolles, Italy - Vulcano solfatara (solfatare) of Pozzuoli near Naples (Italy, Italia, Napoli) - Champs phlegreens (Campi Flegrei): crater of the sulfur volcano, soufriere - mythical entrance of the Hell for the ancient Romans, one can see jets of sulphur steam at 160 degrees - engraving by the Musee Universal, 1874 - see views of the same site one and a half centuries later, in 2016: GUT8326 a GUT8329 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293797: Extract from the textbook “La nouvelle premier née d'Histoire de France” by Ernest Lavisse, editions Armand Colin 1894: L'enfance de Louis XV (Louis 15, figure 40) - The French monarch, king at five years old, was very poor. One day, his governor, Marechal Francois Neufville de Villeroy (1644-1730), showing him a crowd under the windows of his palace, said to him: “See, sire, all this people belong to you.” - child, kingdom, kingdom, monarchy, power, contempt - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293956: The use of plaster in agriculture in the 18th century: the experience of Franklin - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) wrote on the surface of a field with gypsum dust the phrase “” this was plaster””. When the trefle grew, it was dru and greener at the location of the flat parts, making the sentence readable and proving its merits! Engraving from the work of P. Joigneaux “” Causeries sur l'agriculture”” (19th) - / Bridgeman Images