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