A Merovingian Queen
A Merovingian Queen
A Wedding ( La Madeleine )
The crowd is generally sympathetic to weddings. The hour at which they are accomplished generally coincides with that of the lunch of the milliners and other dressmakers of the district, which their lack of dowry maintains in the state of celibates without depriving them of the desire and the hope of going up in `rank`. They constitute the fund of spectators, and their special knowledge enables them to estimate with precision the probable resources of the new spouses and their entourage.
Alfred d Orsay
Alfred d Orsay
Armed Parisians meeting the king
Armed Parisians meeting the king, 1383 From an illuminated manuscript in the National Library, Paris.
Assassination of Henry IV
Assassination of Henry IV, Rue de la Ferronnerie, may 14, 1610.
Benjamin D’Israeli
Benjamin D’Israeli
Besnier's flying apparatus
Reproduction by heliogravure of the figure from the Journal des sçavans (1678). Extract from a letter written to Mr. Toynard on a Machine of a new invention to fly in the air. A, right front aisle. — B, left rear aisle. — C, left front aisle. — D, right rear aisle. — E, fissure of the left foot which lowers the D aisle, when the left hand lowers the Aisle C. — F, fissure of the right foot which lowers the D-pin when the left hand lowers the C-pin.
Bicyclists ( Carrefour d'Ermenonville )
While at the Potinière we admire the velocemen and velocewomen in possession of all the secrets of art, we only meet here the laggards studying under the eye of professionals. It is assured that the ordinarily gifted people are, after ten lessons, in a condition to direct themselves properly. But just as some students take a long time to do their law far beyond the statutory years, so we find certain temperaments refractory to equilibrium which persist in capsizing at every turn of the wheel beyond all expectations.
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Caroche
Caroche, covered with leather, studded with gold-headed nails, percherons; period, end of sixteenth century.
Charlemagne
Portrait of Charlemagne, whom the Song of Roland names the King with the Grizzly Beard.--Fac-simile of an Engraving of the End of the Sixteenth Century. Charlemagne was the first who recognised that social union, so admirable an example of which was furnished by Roman organization, and who was able, with the very elements of confusion and disorder to which he succeeded, to unite, direct, and consolidate diverging and opposite forces, to establish and regulate public administrations, to found and build towns, and to form and reconstruct almost a new world. We hear of him assigning to each his place, creating for all a common interest, making of a crowd of small and scattered peoples a great and powerful nation; in a word, rekindling the beacon of ancient civilisation. When he died, after a most active and glorious reign of forty-five years, he left an immense empire in the most perfect state of peace
Death of Sainte-Geneviève
Sainte-Geneviève, the patron saint of the Parisians, also perpetuated with her legend on the walls of the Panthéon, originally her church but now dedicated to the Grands Hommes of the nation, was born at Nanterre, near Paris, in 422, and guarded in the fields the flocks of her parents, Sévère and Gérontia.
Distributing Bread
Water-color by George Rochegrosse.
Edward Lytton Bulwer
Edward Lytton Bulwer
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.
Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fragment of roman aqueduct
Fragment of roman aqueduct
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
James Hogg
James Hogg
John Baldwin Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone
John Galt
John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart
John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker
Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt
Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
Lord John Russell
Lord John Russell
Lord Lyndhurst
Lord Lyndhurst
M. Blessington
M. Blessington
Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
Napoleon at Longwood
Napoleon at Longwood
Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Queen Victoria in 1839
Queen Victoria in 1839
Regina's Maids of Honour
Regina's Maids of Honour
Remains of roman amphitheatre
Remains of roman amphitheatre, Rue Monge, discovered in 1869.
Return of the Races
From the weighing gate of Longchamps to the top of avenue du Bois, there is everywhere the same accumulation of cars, horses and bicycles. The lines follow one another without interruption, the noses of the horses touching the hood of the previous car and the drawbars threatening the rear of the footmen sitting behind the phaeton. Despite the impatience of some, the general resignation means that, in a relatively short time, this mass of spectators ends up flowing, which, first of all, seemed to be absolutely implausible.
Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sir John C. Hobhouse
Sir John C. Hobhouse
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two
The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two
The Fraserians
The Fraserians
The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the Windows of the Lodge of the Heralds
The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the Windows of the Lodge of the Heralds After a Miniature of the "Tournaments of King Réné" (Fifteenth Century), MSS. of the National Library of Paris.
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark
The Queen receiving the sacrament, after her coronation - Westminster Abbey, June 29, 1838
The Queens first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837
Queen Victorias first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837 The year 1837, except for the death of the old King and the accession of the young Queen, was a tolerably insignificant year. It was on June 20 that the King died. He was buried on the evening of July 9 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; on the 10th the Queen dissolved Parliament; on the 13th she went to Buckingham Palace; and on November 9 she visited the City, where they gave her a magnificent banquet, served in Guildhall at half past five, the Lord Mayor and City magnates humbly taking their modest meal at a lower table.
The waterer of the Louis XV bridge
Few horses are driven there for the sole purpose of quenching their thirst, but the number of tired hocks that we hope to strengthen by staying in cold water is large enough for the trough to be sufficiently populated, and the hope of seeing some clumsy groom fall into the water keeps a certain number of fans of free shows on the parapets.
Theodore S Hook
Theodore S Hook
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher [Wikipedia]
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
Thomas Noon Talfourd
Thomas Noon Talfourd
Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
William Cobbett
William Cobbett
William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth