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    1702: "Two large portraits of the King full-length, with the small sketch for the said portraits, as well as one for the full-length portrait of the king of...
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    "Bataille et l'histoire des mentalités". In Ferri, Laurent; Gauthier, Christophe (eds.). L'Histoire-Bataille. L'écriture de l'histoire dans l'œuvre de Georges...
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    de Saint-Ouen et Madame de Pompadour », Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 2003, p. 221–240 Read the article Mitford, Madame de Pompadour...
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    and 1625), along with three individual portraits made for Marie and her family, is now known as the "Marie de' Medici cycle" (currently displayed in the...
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    Napoleon III standing in his Grand Cabinet. It is held at the Musée de l'Histoire de France, in Paris. At its first presentation in the Universal Exhibition...
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  • the composer and the history of his time. Director of the series Portraits de l'Histoire [fr] at the "Club français du livre [fr]", Jean Massin wrote various...
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    (1657). Préface de l'Histoire comique par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, contenant les Estats et empires de la Lune (in French). Paris: Charles de Sercy. Loret...
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  • Thumbnail for Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles)
    The Musée de l'Histoire de France (Museum of French History) is a museum that was created by King Louis Philippe I in the Palace of Versailles and opened...
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  • Thumbnail for Louise Marie-Thérèse (The Black Nun of Moret)
    the Société de l'histoire de Paris et d'Ile-de-France, published in 1924 by Honoré Champion éditions, concluded that this pastel portrait was painted around...
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  • Thumbnail for Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
    Switzerland Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, National Gallery, London Portrait of the Duchess de Polignac, 1782 oil on canvas. Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles)...
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    historiques (1862) Abrégé de l'histoire d'Italie depuis la chute de l'Empire romain jusqu'en 1864 (1865) Text online Entretiens sur l'histoire, Antiquité et Moyen...
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    Judgement in Joseph de Maistre", Roman Revue, Vol. 27, pp. 254–262. Glaudes, Pierre (1997). Joseph de Maistre et Les figures de l'Histoire: Trois Essais sur...
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    1893 and Ludovic Lalanne's edition for the Société de l'histoire de France (12 vols, 1864–1896). De Bourdeille can hardly be regarded as a historian proper...
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    (1847) L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine (1848) Les Paysans (1855) Published pseudonymously As "Lord Rhône", in collaboration L'Héritière de Birague (1822)...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    September 12, 2021. "Les années de la prohibition". www.saq.com (in French). Retrieved March 13, 2023. "L'histoire de la SAQ : Société d'Alcool du Québec"...
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  • Thumbnail for Le portrait de Manon
    Le portrait de Manon is an opéra comique in one act by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Georges Boyer. It is related to Massenet's 1884 opera Manon...
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    Jean-Jacques Ampère (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    poetry at the Athenaeum in Marseille. The first of these was printed as De l'Histoire de la poésie (1830), and was practically the first introduction of the...
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    suivies de réflexions sur les écrits de Monsieur de Bonald (1819) Libres Méditations d'un solitaire inconnu (1824) Résumé de l'histoire de la Chine (1825)...
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    honnête à l'auteur malhonnête de la "Critique de l'histoire universelle de M. de Voltaire" (1760), dans Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, Voltaire. Moland,...
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    de sculpture (1648–1793) – Nomination de M. le Baron de Besenval comme Honoraire Amateur, le 7 février 1784, publiés pour la Société de l'histoire de...
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    2003). Lemerle, F. & Y. Pauwels (2016). Philibert De L'Orme (1514-1570). Un architecte dans l'histoire: Arts - Sciences - Techniques (= Études Renaissantes...
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    Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes du Paraguay. In 1802 there appeared at Madrid the essay Apuntamientos para la Historia natural de los cuadrúpedos...
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    Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (category French portrait painters)
    Art Museum. Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, National Gallery, London Duchesse de Polignac, 1782 oil on canvas. Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles)...
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  • High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Albertina in Vienna, the Musée de l'Histoire de France at Versailles, and, in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, the Musée...
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  • Thumbnail for Horace Bénédict de Saussure
    available online (1796–1808) Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs le Genève, 4 vol. – Linda Hall Library (1796) "Agenda...
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  • Thumbnail for Thérèse of Lisieux
    Genevieve, was an artist, she painted several portraits of her sister to help spread her devotion. Céline's portraits of Therese were widely reproduced in devotional...
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  • Thumbnail for Antonio de La Gándara
    avril 1893, conférence à la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, présentée à l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, le 18 novembre 2006, à...
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  • Thumbnail for Maximilien Robespierre
    société des Jacobins: Mars à novembre 1794. Recueil de documents pour l'histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris (in French). Vol. 6. Librairie Jouaust. pp...
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  • Thumbnail for Richard I of England
    London 1867, S. 196. L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, v. 2310, ed. G. Paris in: Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, vol. 11, Paris 1897...
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  • Thumbnail for Hernán Cortés
    known portraits of Hernán Cortés which were likely made during his lifetime, though only copies of them have survived. All of these portraits show Cortés...
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