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Valeur des assignats et autres papiers monnoies / J. Benizy dit Dubuisson del. et sculp.

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

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

Fidélité au Roi - A painting of a group of men in uniform

Fidélité au Roi - A painting of a group of men in uniform

Print shows soldiers swearing loyalty to the French king. Translated title: Loyalty to the king. Déposé á la direction de l'Imprimerie Royale &c. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871

Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871

Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on b... More

Triomphe de Marat - A drawing of a group of people holding signs

Triomphe de Marat - A drawing of a group of people holding signs

Jean Paul Marat with crown of laurel leaves carried on shoulders of man around whom others are crowded; celebrating his acquittal by Revolutionary Tribunal.

Emprunt 4% 1918 . . . l'Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

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

Emprunt 4% 1918 . . . l'Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

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

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 25-28

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 25-28

Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette, Marianne, the symbol of France, sits at a gambling table, spending the workers' pensions. In the second vignette a crowd gathers around a hole in a Parisienne st... More

Feeding the carp - park at Fontainebleau / painted by P.C. Comte ; engraved by J. Ballin.

Feeding the carp - park at Fontainebleau / painted by P.C. Comte ; eng...

Two noble women feeding carp. 15007(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

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

Limy, through which the American forces passed in cutting off the St. Mihiel Salient, 1918

Limy, through which the American forces passed in cutting off the St. ...

Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 161. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field

Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field

Print shows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed monster pulling in opposite directions; Louis wears the horns of a cuckold and Marie Antoinette has the head of Medusa wearing ostrich feathers. de Vi... More

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Print shows a man, possibly Joseph-François Foullon, on his hands and knees with a woman of the Third Estate, a sword at her side, riding on his back. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: French Political C... More

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Print shows a pig sitting upright on the ground, dressed in ecclesiastical vestiments, on the right is a member of the Third Estate holding a long staff and a bell-like device on a string which he holds up befo... More

The solemnization of the marriage between Louis XIV, King of France, and Marie-Thérèse of Austria, daughter of Philip IV, King of Spain, in 1660

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

Decoration du Bal Masqué donné par le roy ... / C.N. Cochin filius delineavit. ; C.N. Cochin Pater sculp.

Decoration du Bal Masqué donné par le roy ... / C.N. Cochin filius del...

Decorations at the masked ball given by King Louis XV of France in February 1745, on the occasion of the marriage of his son, the Dauphin, to Marie Therese of Spain; also visible, ballroom interior and numerous... More

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... More

Mirabeau pere du peuple / Lacaille sculp cit.

Mirabeau pere du peuple / Lacaille sculp cit.

Print shows Mirabeau, bust portrait, left profile, in medallion. Purchase; Denenberg Fine Arts; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:180). Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

Compulsion pour ces gens que n'attend pas la libertie / TC.

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

Arriere garde du Pape, ou la frayer du reverend pere caporal

Arriere garde du Pape, ou la frayer du reverend pere caporal

Print shows the ragged rear-guard troops of the Pope's army cowering as they retreat from the advancing French army lead by the handsome and well-dressed Napoleon Bonaparte emerging on the left through billowin... More

Represantant d'une grande nation / J. Cooke, sculpt., 40 Howland St.

Represantant d'une grande nation / J. Cooke, sculpt., 40 Howland St.

"A grotesque monster, nude and hairy, representing the Constitution of the Year III, stands against the trunk of L'Arbre de Liberté (right) with upraised hands. The tree, Emblême de l'Arbre de Connoissance, has... More

Le Triomphe de la religion - Public domain dedication image

Le Triomphe de la religion - Public domain dedication image

Cartoon shows Pope Pius VII, Cardinal Caprara, and other members of the clergy seeking to receive the spirit of light from the beneficial rays emanating from a dove at top center, parting the dark clouds of ign... More

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / Fragonard fils inv. ; Malapeau aqua forti ; Berthault sculp.

Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / F...

Print shows the interior of a room used by the Revolutionary committee during the Reign of Terror; citizens enter on the left and submit their appeals, then procede along the table where judgment is pronounced ... More

Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batch of kings - his man, Hopping Talley, mixing up the dough / Js. Gillray invd. & fec., British Cartoon Print

Tiddy-Doll, the great French gingerbread-baker; drawing out a new batc...

Print shows Napoleon standing before a large "New French Oven for Imperial Gingerbread" drawing out a freshly baked kings labeled "Bavaria, Wirtembg, [and] Baden." On the left, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pér... More

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a man on a horse

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a...

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

Justice rendue au courage - A drawing of a man standing on top of a table

Justice rendue au courage - A drawing of a man standing on top of a ta...

Print shows Minerva or Justice crowning an Ultra royalist on the left with an over-sized candle snuffer or extinguisher and an officer of the empire on the right with a laurel wreath.

Le tiers état confesseur La constitution Française.

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

[Louise-Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Princesse de France] / Luigi Rossi dis dal vero ; Léon-Noël litog.

[Louise-Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Princesse de France] / Luigi Rossi d...

Print showing Louise-Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, with right hand resting on a table, in front of a picture of a man with two children. Inscribed in pencil on ... More

La locomotion aérienne passive. Principes de la nature sur la chûte reelle des corps, opposé aux lois scientifiques / / lith. Schmid.

La locomotion aérienne passive. Principes de la nature sur la chûte re...

Technical illustration shows 14 figures with various designs for parachutes, including Blanchard's parachute, and several vessels with wings. "Invt. & constr. de Tollin" below fig. 11. Illus. from: L'aéronauti... More

Marcoussis (Corot) / Corot ; Lalanne., engraving, Library of Congress

Marcoussis (Corot) / Corot ; Lalanne., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows the pastoral setting of Marcoussis, France. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Haloed Joan of Arc (?) on horse with lion flag leading army]

[Haloed Joan of Arc (?) on horse with lion flag leading army]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1935:0064). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as cover of: Collier's weekly.

Rayon d'or, dernier mot de l'eclairage / Pal.

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).

République Franc̨aise - A drawing of a man standing in front of a group of people

République Franc̨aise - A drawing of a man standing in front of a grou...

Print shows a large female figure labeled "Republique Française" standing at center with her right arm around the shoulder of a man labeled "Suffrage Universel" and her left hand resting on a document labeled "... More

Her new protector / Ehrhart. - Public domain portrait engraving

Her new protector / Ehrhart. - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows Emile Loubet holding papers that state "La Constitution" and standing with a young female figure representing France; they are looking toward the sun labeled "Le Triomphe de la Vérité" in the backgr... More

Le Frou Frou 20', journal humoristique / L Capiello.

Le Frou Frou 20', journal humoristique / L Capiello.

Poster showing a can-can dancer holding a copy of "Le Frou Frou" while she dances.

A kick that was a long time coming / CH [monogram].

A kick that was a long time coming / CH [monogram].

Illustration shows a bull labeled "France" being attacked by insects shaped like little clerical figures, which cause it to kick with its hind legs, knocking Pope Pius X off a stool and overturning a bucket, sp... More

Poster - L'impérial cambrioleur - Public domain lithograph

Poster - L'impérial cambrioleur - Public domain lithograph

Crown Prince, Wilhelm, (1882-1951) stealing and placing valuable items from the 'Chateau de Baye' in crates.

Journé du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915. Organisée par le   parlement

Journé du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915. Organisée par le parlement

A poilu embracing a girl. Behind them is a sewing machine, and a tipped chair; a little dog is in the left-hand corner. Caption: Enfin seuls . . .! Alone at last . . .!

La Grande guerre - Glorieux tropheé

La Grande guerre - Glorieux tropheé

Print shows French soldiers seizing the battle flag from a German unit during a battle. Caption: Le premier drapeau pris a l'ennemi. In portfolio: La Grande Guerre. Paris : A. Tolmer et Cie, 1915, plate no. 4.

The Y.M.C.A. motor kitchen in France / Edgar Wright.

The Y.M.C.A. motor kitchen in France / Edgar Wright.

Poster showing a truck fitted out as a YMCA canteen, serving soldiers, with smoke rising from battlefields in the distance.

Poster - Français, économisez le gaz - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Français, économisez le gaz - Public domain lithograph

A glowing gas lamp. Translation of title: French people save [natural] gas. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, some marked "Affiche composée par les enfants de France pour la prévo... More

Exposition du 1er au 30   octobre 1917 . . . organisée par la Ligue Souvenez-Vous . . . documents, photographies, affiches, . . . aux crimes allemands

Exposition du 1er au 30 octobre 1917 . . . organisée par la Ligue So...

A German soldier escorting an unhappy group of people through the streets. The Germans deported more than 120,000 Belgians back to Germany, and relocated about 20,000 French within the invaded French territor... More

La visiteuse d'hygiéne vous montrera le chemin de la santé. Elle mène une croisade contre la tuberculose et la mortalité infantile. Soutenez-la!

La visiteuse d'hygiéne vous montrera le chemin de la santé. Elle mène ...

A woman holding the symbol of the youth of France, a naked child, who is wearing a Phrygian cap. Translation of title: The health inspector will show you the road to health. She is leading a crusade against tu... More

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. On souscrit à la Banque Adam

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. On souscrit à la Banque Adam

Cannon pointing towards battleships. Clouds and sky in pattern of the American flag.

4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

The allied flags bearing down on Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). Translation of title: The 4th National Defense Loan. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issue: POS - Fr .F35, no. 8 (same image and different text; 79 ... More

Masks, showing different stages in the work done by Mrs. Coleman Ladd of the American Red Cross, for soldiers whose faces have been mutilated in the war ...

Masks, showing different stages in the work done by Mrs. Coleman Ladd ...

Photograph shows casts taken from the soldiers' muitilated faces; the lower row shows the faces which Mrs. Ladd modelled on the foundation of the life mask with help of photographs taken before the wound was re... More

Souscrivez au IVéme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore, á Strasbourg, annonçera au monde le règne de la paix, de la liberté, de la justice

Souscrivez au IVéme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore, á Strasbourg, ann...

Three French soldiers on a hillside in a forest overlooking Strasbourg. In the distant horizon is an enlarged Strasbourg Cathedral with a French flag hanging from it. A German observation balloon is tethered a... More

[Companies M and K, Three hundred and twenty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-second Division, advancing on enemy positions, throwing hand grenades. Choloy, France]

[Companies M and K, Three hundred and twenty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-se...

Title from United States. War Dept. General Staff. Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs, volume 2, page 56. No. 18772.

Four years in the fight. The women of France, we owe them houses of cheer. United War Work Campaign. Y.W.C.A.

Four years in the fight. The women of France, we owe them houses of ch...

Women working in a factory. Signed: L. Jonas. Promotional goal: U.S. G2. 1918//Fr. F34.J7. 1918. Item is no. 180 & 234 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading ... More

This grim reminder wends its way northward, from Chateau Thierry to Soissons

This grim reminder wends its way northward, from Chateau Thierry to So...

Snakelike trench winds through war ravaged land. J272799 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.E. Troutman, Inc. No. 5141.

"Kentucky," Finey Towery - Public domain portrait drawing

"Kentucky," Finey Towery - Public domain portrait drawing

Sketch showing portrait of soldier in France. Annotation at page bottom: "In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines." In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p.... More

Carte de France / Historic map, Library of Congress

Carte de France / Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Missarum Joannis Mouton, liber primus

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.

The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from the face of the earth Or the royal warriors defeated, British Cartoon Print

The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from t...

Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the backgrou... More

Bombardement de tous les trônes de l'Europe et la chûte des tirans pour le bonheur de l'univers

Bombardement de tous les trônes de l'Europe et la chûte des tirans pou...

Print shows members of the French National Assembly exposing their posteriors, from which streams labeled "Liberté ca ira" pour down on the heads of rulers of Europe, while Liberty ignites a cannon labeled "Vio... More

"After you" - Public domain portrait drawing

"After you" - Public domain portrait drawing

Bismarck and Louis Napoleon motion simultaneously to each other to enter the door of peace first. A female figure holding an olive branch, opens the door. Inscribed below image: Watermark 1823 Richard Doyle 18... More

John Bull making a new batch of ships to send to the lakes / Charles, del et sculp.

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

Emprunt National 1918. Souscrivez pour la victoire qui vient!

Emprunt National 1918. Souscrivez pour la victoire qui vient!

Soldiers standing on a tank. Tank warfare was first introduced into WWI by the British in 1916. The word 'tank' was originally a security name given to these 'land ships' or 'land cruisers.'

[View of journalist Joseph Crocé-Spinelli, naval officer Henri Sivel, and Gaston Tissandier in the basket of the balloon, "Zénith," after losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen after reaching an altitude of nearly 28,000 ft., near Paris, France, April, 1875] / [...] ; Lefman, sc.

[View of journalist Joseph Crocé-Spinelli, naval officer Henri Sivel, ...

Newspaper clipping from French serial La Nature? Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atelier de Mr. Lachambre fabricant de ballons de baudruche, aerostats, etc., 24 passage des favorites, Paris, Vaugirard, aout 1883 / A. Tissandier.

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.

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

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

Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la decouverte de leurs complots

Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la decouverte de leurs complots

Print shows a 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 "La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français", a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding "Correspondance de Mr. Dra... More

Liquer Cordial-Médoc, G. A. Jourde - Bordeaux / L. Cappiello.

Liquer Cordial-Médoc, G. A. Jourde - Bordeaux / L. Cappiello.

Poster showing a woman holding a bottle and grapes, against a background of grapes.

Le ballon de Mr. Godard! - Public domain scenic drawing

Le ballon de Mr. Godard! - Public domain scenic drawing

Humorous drawing shows a woman pointing up in surprise at a cow and person apparently falling from a balloon associated with Godard's experiments with lighter-than-air flight. Another cow stands nearby. "Dièu d... More

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoon Print

A republican belle - a picture of Paris for 1794 / IC., British Cartoo...

Print shows an old woman, a sansculotte, in ragged dress, her arms folded across her chest, holding a pistol in one hand, which she fires at a man lying on the ground, and a dagger in the other. There is a skul... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

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

Un peuple est sans honneur, et mérite ses chaines Quand il baisse le front sons le sceptre des reines.

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

Défaite des contre révolutionnaires, commandés par le petit Condé

Défaite des contre révolutionnaires, commandés par le petit Condé

Print shows the retreating counterrevolutionary army of the Prince de Condé following its failed attempt to restore the monarchy in France. Among the caricatured cast of counterrevolutionaries forming Condé's a... More

Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France

Revolution, or Johnny Bull in France

Print shows a large bull labeled "Tiers Etat - Orleans" referring to Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, tossing Marie Antoinette into the air as Louis XVI kneels in prayer on the left; standing behind the bu... More

Nouvelle carte qui comprend les principaux triangles qui servent de fondement à la description géométrique de la France /

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.

Destaing. Shewing how he cut the English mens head off

Destaing. Shewing how he cut the English mens head off

Charles Henri Estaing holding cat by tail in one hand and sword in another.

Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in front of a group of people

Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in f...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... More

Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each other

Il faut faire 3 choses - A drawing of three men standing next to each ...

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

Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Paris

Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...

Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More

Epouventail de la nation - A drawing of a man standing in a field

Epouventail de la nation - A drawing of a man standing in a field

Print shows an effigy of the marquis de Lafayette as the scarecrow of the nation (upper torso on a post stuck in tall grass on a river bank at the border, wearing military uniform, brandishing a sword) attempti... More

Maria Antoinette, Queen of France / Leney sc.

Maria Antoinette, Queen of France / Leney sc.

Print shows Marie Antoinette, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a cameo necklace and a hat with feathers or feathers in her hair; in oval medallion. Trimmed to within plate mark. Lacking publication ... More

C.G. Lamoignon de Malesherbes - né a Paris le 6 Décembre 1721 ; mort le 22 avril 1794 / Aubry del. ; Cardon sculp.

C.G. Lamoignon de Malesherbes - né a Paris le 6 Décembre 1721 ; mort l...

Print shows the apotheosis of Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, bust portrait, left profile among clouds above allegorical scene with a sarcophagus on which is a reclining female figure holding an... More

Proclamation de la Constitution, place du Marché des Innocens, le 14 septembre 1791 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault scul.

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

Voilà la plus cuite, mon Empereur!

Voilà la plus cuite, mon Empereur!

Print shows Napoleon stopping at an evening mealtime bivouac to converse with the rank and file soldiers who offer him one of their potatoes. Déposé. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library... More

La Poire était mûre - A drawing of a pear on a branch

La Poire était mûre - A drawing of a pear on a branch

A ripe pear, with profile of Napoleon between leaf and branch, falling from a branch.

Important news by telegraph. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

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 raison.

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.

Cantiniere, France, 1853 Cigarette Card

Cantiniere, France, 1853 Cigarette Card

Cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes showing a French cantinière in uniform in 1853. At head of title: Illust'd Sweet Caporal. Illus. in souvenir... More

Mort de Louis XVI, le 21 janvier 1793 Place de la Concorde - on voit à gauche le socle de la statue de Louis XV déboulonnée.

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).

[At the beach and other seaside scenes] /

[At the beach and other seaside scenes] /

Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Her little enemies / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Her little enemies / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows a large female figure labeled "France" holding a flag that states "The Truth at Any Cost" and a fasces, while diminutive male figures tug at her dress, they are labeled "Militarism, Jesuitism, Imper... More

Antoine Francois Callet - Maria Antoinette, Queen of France

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

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 65-68. Grand concours de jouets

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 65-68. Grand concours de jo...

Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette, two mechanical figures on one set of wheels stand face to face. One, identified as "Cambon" holds an armless and legless figure labelled "Congo." The other, wea... More

Lire dans L'Evenement. Coeurs virils . . . par Gabriel Mauriére

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

German army in WWI - Germans in the "Argonne"

German army in WWI - Germans in the "Argonne"

Photograph shows two German soldiers posed near a building made of tree branches. Various signs are attached to trees. One reads: Die ANlagen dem Schutze ... emph[...]ten.

A Y.M.C.A. "dug-out" in France / Edgar Wright.

A Y.M.C.A. "dug-out" in France / Edgar Wright.

Poster showing a YMCA canteen serving soldiers, with sign above the door, "George Williams' House. In memory of Sir George Williams who founded the Y.M.C.A. over 70 yrs. ago. To the glory of God and Britain's y... More

Office de renseignments pour les familles dispersées

Office de renseignments pour les familles dispersées

An older man holding a young child while another child stands next to him. This office offered free service to help reunite families of refugees and those that had been evacuated. Translation of title: Infor... More

Le bon feu 1914-1915-1916. N'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid

Le bon feu 1914-1915-1916. N'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid

A man and a woman, wrapped in blankets, seated and standing, respectively, near an empty fireplace. This was a campaign to supply those at home, particularly older people, with wood or coal for heat. Translati... More

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