TAD1747467: merovingian mask (481-751 AD) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747502: Clarisse, nun of Saint Clara 's order, in 1667, engraving by Claude Mellan (1598-1688) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747529: donkey used to pull carts to stand in for horses sent to the front during ww1 c. 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747564: French soldiers in the trenches after assault on german lines during les Eparges battle (Meuse, Lorraine, France) early 1915 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747574: View of the harbour and the banks of river Tiger in Baghdad , Iraq in 1914-1917 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750001: fire of the Peletier Opera in Paris in 1883, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750011: View of the colonnade of the Louvre Palace in Paris, built in 1668-1670 after architect Perrault, engraving by Sebastien Leclerc (1677) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747679: Princess Alexandrine Bonaparte, Lucien Bonaparte's 2nd wife / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747698: merovingian jewel buckle (481-751 AD), photo by Hubert Josse / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747712: arab horse-rider, drawing by Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747731: German army in Berlin january 1919 supporting the provisional government of the conservative party, opposed to the spartakist revolt in Germany / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747763: double barricade in Schitzenstrasse, Berlin during the spartakist revolt in Germany november 1918 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747801: Neolithic tools and pottery, (5200-2000 BC) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747844: French royalist and extreme-right propaganda against Popular Front and communism, after general elections of 1936 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747869: marble bust of Charles duke of Morny, French emperor NapoleonIII's half-brother, made by Iselin / Bridgeman Images

TAD1747881: funeral of duke of Berry in Saint Denis church on march 14, 1820, drawing by Jean-Demosthene Dugourc (1749-1825) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749452: A group of French consults a posting of information on the food restrictions on sugar between 1914-1918 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749483: back from the ball , engraving by Beauvarlet after De Broy , 18th century (aristocrats' daily life under LouisXV) / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749521: St Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) taking care of the orphans, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749535: A French soldier sketches the landscapes of the Front of the Somme in France in 1916 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749562: gunner officer of the National guard wearing winter regala uniform, engraving 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749588: coal carriers as well as the knights of Saint Louis have to leave the insignas they held from the old regime, september 1793 at the time of the Mountain Convention, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749602: The Parisian ones observe the avancee the military troops and operations on a chart geographic affichee on a window in the streets of Paris in 1914 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749618: A French leading seaman and some sailors guard the street of station in a town in China about 1920 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749687: community house in Paris, catering for the Electoral Committee of the French Workers' Party supporting the candidate JB Neveu in 1899 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1749692: In front of the food shortages caused by the first World war, Parisian population makes queue in front of the entrance of National Help to be supplied in food, in Paris between 1914 and 1918 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750316: View of Belvedere palace in Vienna (Austria) built by architect Johann Lukas Von Hildebrandt for prince EugeneofSavoy at the early 18th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750344: Surrender in front of Ulm on october 20, 1805 , detail from the low relief of the triumphal arch of the Tuileries palace in 1807-1809 representing the emperor Napoleon 1st with his guard receiving the capitulation of the austrian general Mack, engraving by P. Lacour after drawing by Vauthier , 19th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750357: Marie-Therese of Savoy-Carrignan (1749-1792), princess of Lamballe, she was queen MarieAntoinette's superintendent, here in jail in september 1792 she is sentenced to death, during the French Revolution, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748068: View of city Nancy in east of France , 18th century, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748093: View of the Monceau Public Garden in Paris 18th century / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748111: the spring, engraving by Abraham Bosse 17th century in France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748173: crowd on London bridge over the Thames to watch the British Navy sailing july 1909 / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748183: farm steam engine designed by French mechanical engineer Caller c. 1860, engraving / Bridgeman Images

TAD1748342: tests of the plane Bleriot VI called The Dragonfly september 17, 1907 at Issy les Moulineaux, France / Bridgeman Images

TAD1750670: Sophie Dawes (1795-1840) baroness of Feucheres, english adventuress, mistress of last prince of Conde, miniature / Bridgeman Images