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- Besnier and his wings
In 1678, Besnier, a French locksmith, constructed a curious flying machine consisting of two wooden bars which rested on his shoulders. At the ends of the bars he attached muslin wings, arranged to open on the down stroke and close on the up stroke. The wings were operated by moving the arms and legs. Although Besnier failed to realize that no man had sufficient muscular strength to fly as the bird flies, he did sense part of the truth—that gliding with the air currents was possible. During his experiments he is said to have jumped from a window sill, glided over the roof of a near-by cottage, and landed on a barge in the river. - Octave Chanute experimenting with his gliders on the Michigan sand dunes
Octave Chanute, born in France and reared in America, was one of the first men to make a scientific approach to the problem of flying machines. A thorough scientist, he had followed the progress of all flight experiments the world over. He built gliders with one, two, and even five pairs of wings and tested all of them on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. His most successful glides were made with a biplane glider. In 1894, he published a book called Progress of Flying Machines, which covered all the efforts of men like himself who had experimented with man-carrying gliders and flying machines. - Château-Gaillard, Plan
Château-Gaillard, the “Saucy Castle” of Cœur-de-Lion, the work of one year of his brief reign, and the enduring monument of his skill as a military engineer, is in its position and details one of the most remarkable, and in its history one of the most interesting of the castles of Normandy. Although a ruin, enough remains to enable the antiquary to recover all its leading particulars. These particulars, both in plan and elevation, are so peculiar that experience derived from other buildings throws but an uncertain light upon their age; but of this guide, usually so important, they are independent, from the somewhat uncommon fact that the fortress is wholly of one date, and that date is on record. Moreover, within a few years of its construction, whilst its defences were new and perfect, with a numerous garrison and a castellan, one of the best soldiers of the Anglo-Norman baronage, it was besieged by the whole disposable force of the most powerful monarch of his day; and the particulars of the siege have been recorded by a contemporary historian with a minuteness which leaves little for the imagination to supply, and which, by the help of the place and works, but little changed, enables us to obtain a very clear comprehension of the manner in which great fortresses were attacked and defended at the commencement of the thirteenth century. - Ancienne Habitation à Bourges
- Ancienne Porte du Palais de Justice
- Armes Symboliques de la Ville de Paris
- Bain-froid Chevrier
- Charles Meryon, 1858. By Léopold Flameng
- Charles Meryon. By Félix Bracquemond
- Collège Henri IV
- Entrée du Couvent des Capucins à Athènes
- L. J.-Marie Bizeul
- L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris
- L’Ancien Louvre, d’après une peinture de Zeeman
- La Galerie Notre-Dame
- La Morgue
- L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame
- 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
- Le Ministère de la Marine -fifth state
- Le Ministère de la Marine
- Le Petit Pont
- Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle
- Le Pont-au-Change
- Le Pont-Neuf et la Samaritaine
- Le Pont-Neuf
- Le Stryge
- Nouvelle-Calédonie
- Océanie, Pêche aux Palmes
- Partie de la Cité vers la Fin du XVIIᵉ Siècle
- Porte d’un ancien Couvent à Bourges
- Rue des Chantres -b
- Rue des Chantres
- Rue Pirouette aux Halles (D.49), third state
- Rue des Toiles à Bourges
- Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine b
- Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine
- Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie
- The Gun with which we won the Great War with France
Observe the heavy breeching-rope attaching the gun to the ship's side; the tackle and block for running in and out; the wooden wheels, and the "quoins" or wedges for elevating the gun. - 'The Glorious 1st of June', 1794
On this date Lord Howe achieved a victory over the French which was considered so important that on the return of the fleet to Spithead the King presented Howe with a gold chain and a sword valued at 3000 guineas. - Paris Scene
- French Lady
- On the Terrace of the Tuileries
- A Drive in a Whiskey
- Skating
- Vigier's Baths
- 1798
- 1798
- Heading
- Seated Lady
- Lady with Umbrella
- Lady
- Riding in the Park
- The Fountain in the Rue de Regard
- At the Races on the Champ de Mars
- Skaters on the Reservoir at La Villette
- 1813