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Waiting for the Saint-Cloud Coach Place de la Concorde 1806 - View of the two panoramas and of the passage between them
View of the two panoramas and of the passage between them 1810 - The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal
The Wooden Gallery in the Palais-Royal 1803 - The Tuleries in 1802
The Tuleries in 1802 - The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon'
The Picture Exhibition at the 'Salon' - The Perron of the Palais-Royal
The Perron of the Palais-Royal - The first Switchback
The first Switchback 1799 - The Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Warwick
The illustration is from the valuable MS. Life and Acts of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. The present is part of a fight before Calais, in which Philip Duke of Burgundy was concerned on one side, and Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, Richard Earl of Warwick, and Humphrey Earl of Stafford on the other. - The Delights of the Malmaison
The Delights of the Malmaison A saunter through the park in 1804 - The Boulevard 'Des Petits Spectacles'
The Boulevard 'Des Petits Spectacles' 1808 - Romain Rolland
Jean-Christophe, the dominant figure of the enormous work which Rolland was a score of years in writing, and nearly half a score in publishing, is gradually becoming a household name upon two continents. “Jean-Christophe” is the detailed life of a man from the cradle to the grave, a prose epic of suffering, a narrative of the evolution of musical genius, a pæan to music, and a critique of composers, the history of an epoch, a comparative study of the civilizations of France and Germany, an arraignment of society, a discussion of vexed problems, a treatise on ethics, a “barrel” of sermons, a storehouse of dissertations, and a blaze of aspirations. - Preparing for conquest
- Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis We must now speak of two important expeditions, which ought to have settled the animated discussion as to the shape of the earth. The Academy of Sciences had despatched a mission to America, to compute the arc of the meridian at the Equator. It was composed of Godin, Bouguer, and La Condamine. It was decided to entrust a similar expedition to the North to Maupertuis. - Peasant Woman and Churn
Peasant Woman and Churn - Out for a ride
- Marchands en Gros, Fifteenth Century
The last cut is taken from the painted glass at Tournay of the fifteenth century, and represents marchands en gros. This illustration of a warehouse with the merchant and his clerk, and the men and the casks and bales, and the great scales, in full tide of business, is curious and interesting. - 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!" - Little Patriots
- Jean Cocteau
Portrait of Jean Cocteau From an unpublished crayon sketch by Léon Bakst - In the Gallery of the Palais-Royal
- French National Library
French National Library - Entry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389
Our illustration represents Isabel of Bavaria, Queen of Charles VII., making her entry into Paris attended by noble dames and lords of France, on Sunday, 20th of August, in the year of our Lord 1389. There was a great crowd of spectators and the bourgeois of Paris, twelve hundred, all on horseback, were ranged in pairs on each side of the road, and clothed in a livery of gowns of baudekyn green and red. The Queen, seated in her canopied litter, occupies the middle of the picture, in robe and mantle of blue powdered with fleur-de-lis, three noblemen walking on each side in their robes and coronets. - Courtyard of a House
The cut, from a MS. in the French National Library, gives the interior of the courtyard of a great house. We notice the portion of one of the towers on the left, the draw-well, the external stair to the principal rooms on the first floor, the covered unglazed gallery which formed the mode of communication from the different apartments of the first floor, and the dormer windows. - Coasack Encampment on the Champs-Elysees
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- An official ball in the Strassbourg Theatre
- An Execution in Paris
The woodcut represents the execution, in Paris, of a famous captain of robbers, Aymerigol Macel. The scaffold is enclosed by a hoarding; at the nearer corners are two friars, one in brown and one in black, probably a Franciscan and a Dominican; the official, who stands with his hands resting on his staff superintending the executioner, has a gown of red with sleeves lined with white fur, his bonnet is black turned up also with white fur. In the background are the timber houses on one side of the place, with the people looking out of their windows; a signboard will be seen standing forth from one of the houses. The groups of people in the distance and those in the foreground give the costumes of the ordinary dwellers in a fourteenth-century city. - Alain René Le Sage
In a little garden summer-house behind a Paris street, Le Sage sat at his desk, dipped through Spanish books, and wrote with a light heart of the people that he knew, disguised in foreign clothes, and moving in places he had never seen. - A walk in the Tuileries Gardens
A walk in the Tuileries Gardens - A Public Room at Frascatis
A Public Room at Frascatis - A gathering in the Luxembourg Gardens
A gathering in the Luxembourg Gardens 1800 - A gambling hell in the Palais-Royal
A gambling hell in the Palais-Royal 1800 - A check in the Park at Bagatelle
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