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Queen Marie-Antoinette.
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Queen Marie-Antoinette.

Yolande Polignac (1749-1793),duchess,close friend of Marie Antoinette.The Polignacs left France immeditely after the fall of the Bastille,with the first wave of emigrants.
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Yolande Polignac (1749-1793),duchess,close friend of Marie Antoinette.The Pol...

Engraving after Lecomte:Conscripts drawing lots.
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Engraving after Lecomte:Conscripts drawing lots.

Citizens contribute their "Assignats",the revolutionary paper-money, to the equipment of a young volunteer. By the brothers Lesueur.
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Citizens contribute their "Assignats",the revolutionary paper-money, to the equi...

Maison isole sou l'orage. Pen and wash
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Maison isole sou l'orage. Pen and wash

View of the "decorations, illuminations and fireworks" given by the city of Paris in the presence of their Majesties, in honour of the wedding of Madame Louise Elisabeth de France with Philippe, Infante of Spain. August 29, 1739.
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View of the "decorations, illuminations and fireworks" given by the city of Par...

The fireworks offered by the city of Paris in honour of the wedding of Mme. Louise Elisabeth to Philippe, Infant of Spain. Sketch of the third picture: "Three globes, four spheres, two garlands with the portrait of his Majesty, the Dauphin and the Dauphine..."
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The fireworks offered by the city of Paris in honour of the wedding of Mme. L...

Fireworks in honour of the peace treaty of Paris after the Seven-Years War and the inauguration of the statue of King Louis XVth. Paris, Square Louis XV, 1763.
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Fireworks in honour of the peace treaty of Paris after the Seven-Years Wa...

Fireworks offered by the bishop of Soisson in honour of the Dauphine Marie-Antoinette on 12th and 13th of May 1771, on the occasion of her passage through town.
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Fireworks offered by the bishop of Soisson in honour of the Dauphine Marie-A...

View of the garden of M.Reveillon, paper manufacturer, during the take-off of the aerostatic machine made by the brothers Montgolfier, an event which drew huge crowds in the summer of 1783.
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View of the garden of M.Reveillon, paper manufacturer, during the take-off of t...

Southern hemisphere,celestial and terrestrial,fol.28. From the "Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica: scenographia compagnis mundae Brahea" by Gerard Valk (1651-1726)and Pieter Schenk(1660-1719),printed 1708. Coloured engraving.
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Southern hemisphere,celestial and terrestrial,fol.28. From the "Atlas coelesti...

"Les Bronzes de la Couronne" comprise bronze sculptures mainly collected by and presented to Louis XIVth. Statue of Antinous,reminiscent of the Antinous Farnese and the Antinous of the Belvedere. Bronze,H:64,8 cm No.4 of the original royal inventory.
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"Les Bronzes de la Couronne" comprise bronze sculptures mainly collected by and...