ELD4960391: Portrait of Arpad Grand Prince of the Magyars from 896 to 907, founder of the Arpad dynasty, who regained over Hungary from 896 to 1301 (Portrait of Arpad (845-907) head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries) engraving from “” La Hungary historique”” 1851 / Bridgeman Images
ELD4961977: Jules Cesar crosses the river of Rubicon with his legions in arms on January 10, 49 BC in the footsteps of Pompee the Great (Gneo Pompeo Magno or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-48 BC) and violates the law of the Roman Senate which prohibited a Roman general from crossing the border river of Cisalpine Gaul - Crossing the river, Jules Cesar prononca The famous formula “” Alea jacta est”” (Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) Crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC from Cisalpine Gaul to Italy to make his way to Rome - Caesar uttered the famous phrase alea iacta est (“the die has been cast”)) Engraving from “” Storia di Roma by Francesco Bertolini / Bridgeman Images
ELD4963974: Portrait of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans Duke of Chartres known as Philippe Egalite (1747-1793) with his wife Marie Adelaide de Bourbon (1753-1821), the governess of the children and mistress of Philippe egalite, Felicite de Genlis (1746-1830) and the four children (including Louis-Philippe d'Orleans (1773-1850) who came to visit the prisons of Mont Saint Michel destroying the Iron cage (girl) set up by King Louis XI around 1788 (Portrait of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans with his family and his mistress Stephanie Felicite, Countess de Genlis in the prisons of the Mont-Saint-Michel, destroying the iron cage of Louis XI, 1788) Engraving from “Histoire de la vie politique et de Louis-Philippe” by Alexandre Dumas, 1852 / Bridgeman Images
ELD4963958: Portrait of the eight children of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans (1773-1850) and Marie-Amelie de Bourbon-Sicilies: Ferdinand-Philippe, Louise, Marie, Louis, Clementine, Francois, Charles, Henri and Antoine circa 1836-1837 (Portrait of the eight sons of Louis Philippe I with his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily) political and by Louis-Philippe”” by Alexandre Dumas, 1852 / Bridgeman Images
JEB4960026: Portrait of Honore Gabriel (Honore-Gabriel) Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (1749-1791), apostrophant Henri Evrard (Henri Evrard), Marquis of Dreux Breze (Dreux Breze) (1762-1829) on 23/06/1789. Painting by Joseph Boze (1745-1826). Oil on canvas. Musee Granet, Aix en Provence., Boze, Joseph (1745-1825) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4960236: Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633) receiving Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse at home after learning the marriage of Henri IV and Marie de Medicis in 1600 (Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil and Claude, Duke of Chevreuse 1600) Engraving from “Histoire de la Bastille” by Arnould Maquet, c.1844 / Bridgeman Images
ELD4962517: Milenary of Rome: From 21 April 247 to 21 April 248, Philippe l'Arabe marks the tenth secular games for a year of grand celebrations (Ludi Saeculares, celebrated under the reign of Philip the arab, coincided with the one thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Rome, 247-248 AD) Engraving from “Storia di Roma” by Francesco Bertolini / Bridgeman Images
ELD4962571: Roman Antiquite “” Emperor Probus (232-282) allowing families of Germans, Francs and Alamans to settle on abandoned agricultural lands - these settlers are known as deditices, lets, gentiles vers 280” (Laeti, communities of barbari (“barbarians”) foreigners, or people from outside the Empire, allowed to settle on, and granted land in, imperial territory on condition that they provide recruits for the Roman military under the reign of Probus, 280 ca) Engraving from “Storia di Roma” by Francesco Bertolini / Bridgeman Images
ELD4963415: Ancient Rome: “” Domitia Longina (53-128) reading his name on the lists of proscription that his wife the Emperor Domitian had established, in 96” (Roman empress Domitia chanced upon a list of brokers Domitian intended to put to death 96) Engraving from “Storia di Roma” by Francesco Bertolini / Bridgeman Images
ELD4963586: En fevrier 1420, l'ambitieuse marguerite de Clisson comtesse de Penthievre (1372-1441) qui residait dans la citadelle de Chateauceaux (devenue Champtoceaux), tendit un piege au duc Jean V de Bretagne, ainsi qu'a son frere Richard Montfort comte d'Etampes, et les fit prisonniers (Abduction of John V, Duke of Brittany and Richard, Count of etampes by the Counts of Penthievre 1420) Gravure tiree de ""Histoire de la Bretagne"" de Jules-Janin 19eme siecle / Bridgeman Images
ELD4960260: Catherine de Lorraine (1552-1596) Duchess of Montpensier learning about the death of her brother Henry of Lorraine the Duke of Guise in 1588 (Princess of Guise Catherine of Lorraine when she knows about the death of her brother Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550Ð88) 1588) Engraving from Histoire de la Bastille” by Arnould Maquet, c.1844 / Bridgeman Images
ELD4961270: Celebration of the fete dieu instituted by King Rene of Anjou in 1462 in Provence, mixing the sacred and the profane with the donkey (French celebration of the Corpus Christi with a donkey, 15th century) Engraving taken from “” Histoire picturesque des religions”” by Clavel 1844 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images