- Electric flying machine depicted in Le Philosophe sans pretension (1775)
We reproduce as a curiosity this charming vignette, where we see the inventor Scintilla driving his machine. - English direct plunger Elevator
- Entrée du Couvent des Capucins à Athènes
- Femme-de-la-cour and foundling
Femme-de-la-cour (Lady of the Court) and foundling - Final development
- Fragment of roman aqueduct
Fragment of roman aqueduct - Francis I
Charles realized that his great empire was in very serious danger both from the west and from the east. On the west of him was his spirited rival, Francis I; to the east was the Turk in Hungary, in alliance with Francis and clamouring for certain arrears of tribute from the Austrian dominions. - French Lady
- French Soldier
- General arrangement of Otis Elevator in the tower
- General arrangement of the Roux Combaluzier
- Henri IV
- How a crossbowman should approach animals
How a crossbowman should approach animals by means of a cart concealed with foliage. - I have one picture in the salon
- In the Gallery of the Palais-Royal
- In the Garden of the Tuileries
- Inside Columbin's
- Interested in the Winner
- Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc - King Louis leaped fully armed into the sea
But after some delay from contrary winds, and a long wait at Cyprus, the French army landed in Egypt, where the first attack was to be made; King Louis leaped, fully armed, from his galley into the sea in his eagerness to reach the shore. The Saracens fled at first before the invading army, and the city of Damietta was taken almost without a blow. There the Queen, who had followed her husband, as our good Queen Eleanor did a few years later, was left with a sufficient garrison while the army moved onwards up the Nile. - Knights
Knights and Men-at-arms cased in Mail, in the Reign of Louis le Gros, from a Miniature in a Psalter written towards the End of the Twelfth Century. - L. J.-Marie Bizeul
- La Galerie Notre-Dame
- La Morgue
- La Pompe Notre-Dame
- La Rue des Mauvais Garçons
- La Salle des Pas-perdus à l’ancien Palais-de-Justice
- La Tour de L’Horloge
- Lady
- Lady in house-robe. Period, 1816
Lady in house-robe. Period, 1816 - Lady with Umbrella
- Lamarck
Although there has been and still may be a difference of opinion as to the value and permanency of Lamarck’s theoretical views, there has never been any lack of appreciation of his labors as a systematic zoölogist. He was undoubtedly the greatest zoölogist of his time. Lamarck is the one dominant personage who in the domain of zoölogy filled the interval between Linné and Cuvier, and in acuteness and sound judgment he at times surpassed Cuvier. His was the master mind of the period of systematic zoölogy, which began with Linné—the period which, in the history of zoölogy, preceded that of comparative anatomy and morphology. - Lamarck - Aged 35
Lamarck - Aged 35 - Lamarck when old
Portrait of Lamarck, when old and blind, in the costume of a member of the institute, engraved in 1824. - Le Ballet De La Reine
A French Court Ballet In The Early Seventeenth Century - Le Ministère de la Marine
- Le Ministère de la Marine -fifth state
- Le Petit Pont
- Le Pont-au-Change
- Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle
- Le Pont-Neuf
- Le Pont-Neuf et la Samaritaine
- Le Stryge
- Listening for the voice to speak his name once more
- Little Patriots
- Louis IX. represented in his Regal Chair
Louis IX. represented in his Regal Chair, tapestried in fleurs-de-lis, from a Miniature of the Fourteenth Century. (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris.). It is noteworthy that from the time of St. Louis these same chairs and seats, carved, covered with the richest stuffs, inlaid with precious stones, and engraved with the armorial bearings of great houses, issued for the most part from the workshops of Parisian artisans. Those artisans, carpenters, manufacturers of coffers and carved chests, and furniture-makers, were so celebrated for works of this description, that in inventories and appraisements of furniture great care was taken to specify that such and such articles among them were of Parisian manufacture; ex operagio Parisiensi. - Louis XIII, King of France
- Louis XIV
On such terms of unrighteousness what we may call “Grand Monarchy” established itself in France. Louis XIV, styled the Grand Monarque, reigned for the unparalleled length of seventy-two years (1643-1715), and set a pattern for all the kings of Europe. At first he was guided by his Machiavellian minister, Cardinal Mazarin; after the death of the Cardinal he himself in his own proper person became the ideal “Prince.” He was, within his limitations, an exceptionally capable king; his ambition was stronger than his baser passions, and he guided his country towards bankruptcy through the complication of a spirited foreign policy, with an elaborate dignity that still extorts our admiration. - Louis XIV, for the first time, receiving his ministers
This moral depravation, naturally, extended downward to the whole court. M. Brentano, who is one of the few French historians who venture to lay disrespectful hands on the grand Roi-soleil, says: "Charles VII was the original source of the crapulous debauchery of the last Valois; he traced the way for the crimes of Louis XIV, and the turpitudes of Louis XV." This, although the higher clergy of the reigns both of Charles and of Louis Quatorze did not fail in their duty, and did denounce openly from the pulpit the sins of these all-powerful monarchs. - Louis XVI
- Louis XVI on the leads of the temple
After an engraving of the period. - L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris
- L’Ancien Louvre, d’après une peinture de Zeeman
- L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame
- M. Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was an old journalist politician, a great denouncer of abuses, a great upsetter of governments, a doctor who had, while a municipal councillor, kept a free clinic, and a fierce, experienced duellist. None of his duels ended fatally, but he faced them with great intrepidity. He had passed from the medical school to republican journalism in the days of the Empire. In those days he was an extremist of the left. - Madam Campan
Lady-In-waiting to Marie Antoinette - Map of France, corrected by order of the king
Map of France, corrected by order of the king Desborough Cooley in his "History of Voyages," says, "They deprived her (France) of several degrees of longitude in the length of her western coast, from Brittany to the Bay of Biscay. And in the same way retrenched about half a degree from Languedoc and La Provence." These alterations gave rise to a "bon-mot." Louis the XIV., in complimenting the Academicians upon their return, remarked, "I am sorry to see, gentlemen, that your journey has cost me a good part of my kingdom!" - Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine
- Marshall Bassompierre
Engraved by Gouttière from the Original by Alaux.