Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution, British Cartoon ...
Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance. Includes e... More
Le pied de nez de Milord Pit - Public domain dedication image
Cartoon shows Napoleon I, wearing laurel wreath and ermine robe, pushing down one side of scale with his sword, which lifts two frightened monarchs, on the other side, off the ground; in the background stands a... More
Les formes acerbes / Me. Poirier de Dunkerque, avocat, invt., publié l...
Print shows Joseph Le Bon, as a shirtless, crazed madman, standing on a pile of decapitated bodies between two guillotines, he is drinking blood from a chalice as he fills another chalice with the blood spewing... More
Le tigre enchainé - Public domain historical image
Cartoon showing Napoleon I as a tiger in chains held by a British officer holding a whip; two men representing Russia and Austria play musical instruments nearby. DeVinck, 9800 Forms part of: French Political C... More
Ascension du 26 septembre 1876, 700 mètres / Albert Tissandier.
Drawing shows Gaston and Albert Tissandier ascending in their balloon, "Zénith." (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82)
Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...
For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More
Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...
Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More
Société d'expériences aérostatiques Direction 24 rue Maubeuge, Paris.
Advertisement showing a balloon with several persons standing in the basket, one climbing the ropes just above the basket. Tricolor banners hanging from the balloon announce the "Société d'expériences aerostati... More
La Romaine aristocratique - Public domain historical image
Print shows a monstrous figure holding a scale weighing a member of the Third Estate; in the background a plump clergyman and a nobleman walk away with a large pig between them. de Vinck, 2749 Blum, 116 Forms ... More
[Trompe-l'oeil of French revolutionary assignats with a portrait of a ...
Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795, with a full-length portrait of an old man, possibly a beggar, facing left,... More
The signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance betwee...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The man that blocks up the highway.
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Balloon with two passengers ascending over a town square, with French...
Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Bull making a new batch of ships to send to the lakes / Charles, ...
A satire on British efforts to recover after major naval losses on the Great Lakes in 1813 and 1814. According to Lanmon, it is based on Thomas Rowlandson's 1798 satire "High Fun for John Bull or the Republica... More
La frayeur de Gonnesse [i.e. Gonesse], contre-danse franc̜oise / mis a...
Contra-dance instruction manual with dance notation, a description of the dance figures, and music for bass and violin. Title page includes a picture of a man running or dancing near a flying balloon. Possibly ... More
Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tiss...
Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surr... More
Nouvelle carte qui comprend les principaux triangles qui servent de fo...
Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Il faut faire 3 choses - Public domain historical image
Print shows figures of the estates general; a member of the clergy and a nobleman each place a hand on short pillar labeled "Je tien mon pied de bœuf"; a peasant, representing the third estate, places both of h... More
Proclamation de la Constitution, place du Marché des Innocens, le 14 s...
Print shows a large crowd hearing the news that the new constitution is proclaimed, substantially reducing the power of the monarchy. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révol... More
Important news by telegraph. - Public domain broadside, Library of Con...
Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Oup...oup...ça n'ira pas Ah! ça ira...ça ira. Les aristocrates a la ra...
Print shows Maximilien Robespierre playing a fiddle and dancing with a small dog, identified as Jean-Lambert Tallien, dancing to the music.
Un peuple est sans honneur, et mérite ses chaines Quand il baisse le f...
Print shows a nude woman pulling back the curtain to a tent to reveal a female figure or mermaid on a bed stabbing a king sitting in a chair; a bust of a satyr is at the head of the bed, and two-faced Justice s... More
Mort de Louis XVI, le 21 janvier 1793 Place de la Concorde - on voit à...
Louis XVI being led to the guillotine at the time of his execution. Extrait des Révolutions de Paris. In album: French Revolution. Forms part of: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress).
Antoine Francois Callet - Maria Antoinette, Queen of France
Print shows Marie Antoinette, full-length studio portrait, facing front with her head turned to the left, looking over right shoulder, wearing a large gown and feathered headdress. D8531 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More
Lire dans L'Evenement. Coeurs virils . . . par Gabriel Mauriére
A nurse making an appeal to a wounded French soldier. In the background is Rheims Cathedral burning. Attributed to Castrez? Translation of title: Read in L'Evenement. 'Strong hearts . . .' by Gabriel Mauriére. ... More
Cultivons notre potager / Louisette Jaeger, 14 ans.
Picture of carrots, cabbage, and potatoes. Translation of title: Let's grow a 'victory garden.' From a group of posters designed by school children and others, some marked "Affiche composée par les enfants de ... More
French mutilé fitted with a mask by Mrs. Anna Coleman Ladd, of the Am...
No. 8352. Written on mount: Print made for Look magazine 11-4-37. Forms part of the American Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress)
L'Emprunt de la Libération - Drawing. Public domain image.
The allied flags bearing down on Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). Translation of title: The Liberation Loan. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issue: POS - Fr .F35, no. 3 (same image and different text). Promotional ... More
Carte de France / Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Cognac Gautier Frères France / L. Cappiello.
Poster showing a woman carrying enormous bunches of grapes on her shoulders. Affiches artistiques. Reproduction interdite.
French liberty - British slavery / Js. Gy. desn. et fect. pro bono pub...
A design in two compartments. On the left is a lean and ragged sansculotte, seated on a stool before an open hearth ravenously eating raw onions, while he warms his bare toes at the fire. He is rejoicing. On th... More
Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...
Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More
Theodore Maurisset - Prodige de la chimie / Maurisset, del. et sculp.,...
French cartoon shows a long line of people, with more arriving by stagecoach and railroad, at a medicine show where a quack with a lion's head, the "Prodige de la chimie," is marketing his hair tonic "De pommad... More
Soignons la basse-cour. Je suis une brave poule de guerre, je mange pe...
A black hen sitting on top of a large pile of eggs. Translation of title: Let's take care of the poultry. I am a fine war hen. I eat little and produce a lot. From a group of posters designed by school childre... More
[France as woman with outstretched hands with banners of liberty, equa...
Public domain scan of 18th century French drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
American aviation field in France
Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cox & Co. - (France) Ld. . . . Emprunt national 1920 . . . On y souscr...
Crowd rushing into Cox & Co. Translation of title: Cox & Co. France Ld. The 1920 National Loan. Subscribe. Signed: A. Galland. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1920. Item is no. 34 in a printed checklist available in... More
Missarum Joannis Mouton, liber primus
4 vol. one for each part: Soprano, alto, ténor, basse. Missa sine nomine -- Alleluja -- Alma redemptoris -- Ite[m] alia sine nomine -- Regina mearum.
Atelier de Mr. Lachambre fabricant de ballons de baudruche, aerostats,...
Drawing shows the interior of Henri Lachambre's balloon manufacturing facility, with balloon bags and maquettes of various sizes. Four women at the right sew balloon fabric. Tissandier collection.
Acatène Velleda / / L. Baylac, Biarritz '98.
Advertising poster for the chainless Acatène Metropole bicycle with G&J tires showing the Germanic priestess, Velleda, a legendary leader of the Batavian uprising against the Romans, with a bird of prey carryin... More
Premier descente en parachute ... Jacques Garnerin ... le 22 Octobre 1...
Painting shows descent of Garnerin in a basket attached to a parachute from about 1000 meters while the unmanned balloon falls to the ground. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Exhibited:... More
La patrie est en danger / F. d'Orléans, j[ui]n 1830.
French political cartoon uses a scene from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to compare the situation surrounding the 1830 July Revolution in France to the time when l'Assemblée (the French revolutionary gove... More
Quand l'hymen dort, l'amour veille Challe pinx ; Maucler sculp
Print shows a young woman, with her husband asleep at her side, sitting in a garden courtyard, slipping a love note into the quiver of a statue of Cupid, intended for her young lover who is peeking around a tre... More
[Architectural drawing showing elevation, cross section, and plan for ...
Includes descriptive text. Scale: Echelle de 0m.02 p.m. Tissandier collection.
The interrogation of Robespierre on the morning of the tenth Thermidor
8523 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by L. Melingue. Copyright by G. Barrie & Son.
Le 24 Août 1914, à Louvain, ramenant un prisonnier belge, la soldatesq...
Illustration shows an executed Belgian prisoner of war, with hands and legs bound, hung on a lamp off the side of a building; German soldiers proceed down the street and around the corner. German translation o... More
Poster - Le Secours de Guerre - Public domain lithograph
Translation of title: Policemen, soldiers, and civilians standing outside the Ancien Séminaire St. Sulpice which houses Le Secours de Guerre (the relief agency for war victims). Signed: Maurice Romberg, 1916. P... More
Chateau of Lagrange Bleneau - Engraving, Public domain image
No publication information. Gift; Scribner Book Store; Jan. 1953. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Calendrier royal indiquant le cours du soleil
Print shows Louis XIV sitting on a box with fan-shaped back in the center of a sun. The numerous rays of the sun document indignities attributed to the King between 1667 and 1705, such as: "Adultere avec Me. de... More
Acatène Velleda / / L. Baylac, Biarritz '98.
Advertising poster for the chainless Acatène Metropole bicycle with G&J tires showing the Germanic priestess, Velleda, a legendary leader of the Batavian uprising against the Romans, with a bird of prey carryin... More
Reveil du Tiers Etat, ma feinte, il doit tems que je me revillise, car...
Clergyman and aristocrat recoiling from figure representing Third Estate, who is picking up chains and guns; storming of the Bastille in background.
French happiness - English misery / IC.
Print shows, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet, and scenes of death in the background; on the right, a scene in an English tavern with... More
Et l'on revient toujours A ses premiers amours.
Cartoon showing Napoleon I stepping down from throne into a marsh filled with frogs; in his left hand he holds a long pike with a liberty cap on top at which he is looking. DeVinck, 9541 Purchase; S. Emmering; ... More
Descente dans les ateliers de la liberté de la presse / J.J. Grandv. e...
Print shows on the left, King Louis-Philippe in a right side profile, whiskers obscuring his face, with his hand over the mouth of a female printer, representing freedom of the press, and showing on the far lef... More
Buonaparte at Rome giving audience in state / I.Ck., British Cartoon P...
Cartoon shows Napoleon, wearing tattered clothing, seated on a low throne; kneeling before him is a pope placing the keys of St. Peter at his feet as he kicks the crown off the popes head, saying "I say remembe... More
Dédiée l'Assemblée Nationale--Liste de MMr. les Deputes de Paris a l'A...
Deputies of the Third Estate in a carriage drawn by two sheep and two bulls on their way to the Versailles directory; dishevelled lion; figure of the Republic with anchor on low platform behind; list of deputie... More
Mort affreuse de Louis XVI, le plus vertueux et le plus infortuné de m...
The execution of Louis XVI by France. John Davis Batchelder Collection. No. 87.
Derniere procession constitutionelle pour l'Enterrement du serment civ...
Procession of priests with long noses, with Archbishop of Paris, Gobel, in front and mythical creature holding casket of civil oaths bringing up rear. Represents priests who were against the civil constitution ... More
Jules Cheret - L'Etendard français, bicyclettes et tricycles / J. Chér...
Poster showing a woman riding a bicycle, carrying a tri-color pennant. 15,196-91.
Amandines de Provence. Biscuits H. Lalo / L. Cappiello.
Poster showing a woman eating almond cookies. Public domain photograph of beverage advertisement, food, drinks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
French field kitchen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Calendrier royal indiquant le cours du soleil
Print shows Louis XIV sitting on a box with fan-shaped back in the center of a sun. The numerous rays of the sun document indignities attributed to the King between 1667 and 1705, such as: "Adultere avec Me. de... More
Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...
Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More
L'Intérieur du comité révolutionnaire. Scène derniere
Print shows two men pointing out others among a group of revolutionaries to be arrested, perhaps as a backlash to the reign of terror instigated by Robespierre and his followers. Overlooking the scene from a sh... More
Cloture de la salle des Jacobins, dans la nuit du 27 au 28 Juillet 179...
Title translated: Closing of the hall of the Jacobins, in the night of the 27th or 28th July 1794 or 9 or 10th Thermidor year 2 of the Republic. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques ... More
Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus
Print shows the Prince de Condé as Don Quixote on a white horse and vicomte de Mirabeau (Mirabeau Tonneau) as Sancho Panza riding on a barrel-shaped ass on wheels, surrounded by a ragged group of counterrevolut... More
Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.
Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More
Allegorie dèdiè au tiers etat - Public domain historical image
Print shows an allegorical scene with a member of the nobility and a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, helping to hold aloft a large heart-shaped frame, which rests on the back of a man re... More
Jules Cheret - Bonnard-Bidault, affichage et distribution d'imprimés /...
Poster showing a woman with wings and a trumpet, and a banner bearing the name of the printers Bonnard-Bidault. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1987:092). No. 408.
A new legend in an old dress / Keppler.
Print shows William II, Emperor of Germany, as a knight holding a large sword labeled "Germany", keeping guard over two female figures in chains labeled "Alsace" and "Lorraine" in the tower of a medieval castle... More
Ne pas gaspiller le pain est notre devoir
Loaf of bread on a table. Translation of title: Our duty is not to waste bread. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, some marked "Affiche composée par les enfants de France pour la p... More
The open air kitchen used by German prisoners while a new mess hall an...
Photograph shows German prisoners of war cooking in large pots in outdoor kitchen. In album: Photographic supplement to historical record of quartermaster corps activities, A.E.F. Vol. 13, leaf 1. "1410-G8."
Prêtez vos billets de banque à la France. Prenez des bons de la défens...
A French soldier's helmet crowned with holly. Underneath it are bank notes. Translation of title: Lend your bank notes to France. Take war bonds. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, ... More
French field kitchen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tout l'acier et le charbon pour nos usines / M. Héringfeld.
Smokestacks of a factory. Translation of title: Save all steel and coal for our factories. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, some marked "Affiche composée par les enfants de Franc... More
[Don't hurt his feelings, John]
A woman labeled "Daily Mail" begs on her knees to a frowning figure of John Bull who stands above her, posturing sternly with arms crossed. An angry Raymond Poincaré sits with his legs sprawled, with mallet in... More
Court society at Versailles A.D. 1731 / painted by De Troy ; engraved ...
Men and women socializing in a garden. 33392V U.S. Copyright Office. .
Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March ...
G6102 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 32. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carte de France / Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain document scan of map of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carte de France / Historic map, Library of Congress
Public domain document scan of map of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cognac Gautier Frères France / L. Cappiello.
Poster showing a woman carrying enormous bunches of grapes on her shoulders. Affiches artistiques. Reproduction interdite.
La frayeur de Gonnesse [i.e. Gonesse], contre-danse franc̜oise / mis a...
Contra-dance instruction manual with dance notation, a description of the dance figures, and music for bass and violin. Title page includes a picture of a man running or dancing near a flying balloon. Possibly ... More
Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...
For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More
Ou présente à signer un procès verbal aux curés celui qui ligne a des ...
Drawing shows Professor J.A.C. Charles reascending in balloon from the Nesle plain, France, on December 1, 1783, where he had landed shortly before, accompanied by Marie Noel Robert in a two hour journey from P... More
Le demenagement du clergé J'ai perdu mes benefices, rien n'égale ma do...
Print shows a group of ecclesiastical figures departing a church with what remains of their belongings (following the November 1789 decree by the National Assembly regarding church property); at the center of t... More
Quel bonheur de retrouver ce que l'on aime
Print shows a line of monks emerging from a monastery and a line of nuns emerging from a convent, at center is a citizen, wearing a cockade on his hat, getting married to a nun, on the left two married couples,... More
Montage de la statue dans les ateliers de MM. Gaget, Gauthier et Cie /...
The assembling of the Statue of Liberty. Illus. in: La genie civil, 1883 Aug. 1, p. 466. Fig. 15.
A French departure trench just before zero hour
French soldiers in trenches during World War I. J13934 U.S. Copyright Office. No. W116.
Journée du Poilu. Organisée par le Parlement
A young girl in a Red Cross nurse's uniform and a small boy wearing a red cap, carrying a collection cup and selling medals - 'So that Papa may come on leave, if you please.'
Achetez le timbre antituberculeux
A nurse watching children playing outdoors. Translation of title: Buy the tuberculosis stamp. Signed: Vilá. Promotional goal: Fr. G32. 1917. Item is no. 215 in a printed checklist available in the Library of C... More
War orphans from unoccupied France, benefiting from supplies of milk, ...
Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Valeur des assignats et autres papiers monnoies / J. Benizy dit Dubuis...
Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary "assignats", or paper money, in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795. Caption continues: Depuis l'époque de leur emission en... More
Section of many miles of French field kitchens
Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18747. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More
Emprunt 4% 1918 . . . l'Emprunt de la Défense Nationale
The Gallic cock in the foreground. Behind the cock is a statue of a mounted soldier [knight, Joan d'Arc]. In the background are the flags of the allies and a sunburst with the words 'Pro Patria.' Translation of... More
Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur ...
Print shows a large bonfire of items related to the nobility as part of the celebration commemorating the fall of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution ... More
The solemnization of the marriage between Louis XIV, King of France, a...
Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. LeBlanc, no. 99. Public domain scan of French 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.
Print shows a tattered group of soldiers, one with peg leg, following a cart drawn by hooded executioners; chains, an axe, and a gibbet are visible among the items in the cart. On the far right, a pile of dead ... More
Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - Public domain historical image
Cartoon shows Louis XVI, a bishop, and a member of the aristocracy riding on the back of a man, representing the people, who's blindfolded and in chains and crawling on his hands and knees. de Vinck, 10309 Pur... More
Le tiers état confesseur La constitution Française.
Print shows on the left, a member of the Third Estate sitting in a confessional listening to the confession of the clergy from a clergyman reading a long list of sins, a nobleman is departing, carrying a long l... More
Rayon d'or, dernier mot de l'eclairage / Pal.
Poster showing a nude woman with gossamer wings reaching toward the light of a star and a Rayon d'Or light fixture. Gift; Judi Summers; (DLC/PP-1982:191).