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Laurent Guyot - La verite triomphante, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows, on the upper right, Jacques Necker wearing a toga and standing on clouds above a wall or sarcophagus, holding aloft with his left hand a bust portrait of Louis XVI, and holding at his right shoulde... More

Chasse à la grosse bête - A drawing of an elephant attacking a man on ...

Print shows members of a citizen's militia attacking and severing heads of a great beast, the many-headed Hydra of despotism. The Bastille appears under siege in the background. Includes a long caption, "Couple... More

Il voudrait abbattre ce qui les soutient

Print shows, on the far left, Louis XVI sitting on a throne on a raised pedestal with Jacques Necker at the base holding balance scales and appealing for justice. At center, the clergy, the parliament, and the ... More

Portrait d'aprés nature du Sr. Humbert, Compagnon Horloger, natif de L...

Print shows Sr. Humbert and Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, leaders, respectively, of the second and first assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, half-length portrait, facing each other, each in o... More

Liste de MM les Deputes de la noblesse de Paris

Aristocrats in carriage drawn by two lions on their way to Versailles for the meeting of the Estates General; fierce lion at front; figure of the Republic with club on high platform behind; list of the deputies... More

L'accord - Public domain historical image, Political Cartoon. A couple...

Print shows a meeting between the clergy, nobility, and the working class, members of the three estates, dining together and drinking a toast to "la santé d'not bon Roi" in a rural setting. Possibly purchased ... More

Allons plus de distinction ce malheur commun nous rend égaux

Print shows a member of the aristocracy and a member of the Third Estate embracing in a courtyard, they both wear the horns of cuckoldry which they consider a common misery among all classes; a woman leaning ov... More

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

L'Anarchiste. Je les trompe tous deux / Son. Petit, peintre, sculpsit.

Two faced figure of anarchist deceiving figures representing Republicans and Jacobins.

Mr. Spéroni, nonce apostolique, porte-croix de Notre St. Père Le Pape

Print shows a papal nuncio, Mr. Speroni, on horseback being led by a guard, carrying the cross of the Pope to the coronation of Napoleon I at Notre Dame cathedral. He is following the papal carriage carrying th... More

Attaque de la Convention Nationale ; journée mémorable du 13 Vendémiai...

Print shows an uprising in Paris on October 5, 1795 on the rue Saint-Honoré, in front of the Church of Saint-Roch, between factions after the vote on the constitution was announced. Plate from: Collection comp... 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 - A group of men in uniforms standing next to each o...

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

Bal masqué. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animals wearing caricature masks of prominent persons. Reference copy in LOT 4624. Illus. in: Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard / Un autre monde; transformations, visions, ..., 1844, p. 43.

Ascension de la colossale Montgolfiére L'Aigle conduite par Eugène God...

Admission ticket to Eugène Godard's ascent in the balloon "L'Aigle" from a location in France. Includes a picture of a balloon decorated with flags and an eagle emblem. Tissandier collection.

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)

[Woman taking picture of French peasants]

Title devised by cataloger. Probably for Kodak advertisement. (DLC/PP-1935:0064). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Panorama of the Paris Exposition, from the Seine / - Exposition Univer...

From Edison films catalog: This panoramic scene is taken from a Seine steamboat and gives a rapid view of the banks of the river. The launch steams under six bridges and past the Street of Nations. The United S... More

"Sour grapes!" / J.S. Pughe. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a fox labeled "France" and the Russian Bear walking away from a grape arbor labeled "Anglo-Japanese Alliance"; they have tried the grapes and found them not palatable. Illus. in: Puck, v. 51... More

La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 33-36

Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette two women look at a newspaper headline about the pilot, Paulhan. One women wishes to marry him, but her companion tells her that he is already married and offer... More

Économisons le pétrole, l'essence / Marie Louise Jeanningros, 13 ans.

Poster showing gas containers of different sizes. Translation of title: Let's save gas [petrol]. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, some marked "Affiche composée par les enfants de... More

Demain, il y aura du tabac et des cigarettes; un peu de patience, fume...

Two men arguing with two children standing behind a policeman. Translation of title: Tomorrow there will be some tobacco and some cigarettes. Smokers, a little patience, and let's restrain ourselves today. Sig... More

L'Emprunt des 'Dernières Cartouches.' Français, encore un effort . . ....

A man and a little girl in a trench handing a box of cartridges and a grenade up to a soldier who is on the front line. Translation of title: The 'Last Cartridges' Loan. Frenchmen, another try . . . ! Signed: T... More

Faites préserver vos enfants contre la tuberculose par le vaccin B.C.G...

A nurse holding a young child. Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

3e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Crédit Lyonnais. Souscrivez

A French soldier sticking a flag with the word Libérté on it into a large globe.

A view looking northwest, from the mouth of a coal pit, showing the de...

J233239 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 9. Copyright deposit; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); May 10, 1919.

Cavallier (side view) - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows French soldier, whose face was disfigured in World War I, wearing a mask made by Anna Coleman Ladd. No. 2725. Forms part of the American Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress)

Emprunt de la Libération 1918. Souscrivez!

Marianne holding the imperial eagle by the neck. Translation of title: Liberation Loan 1918. Subscribe! Signed: B. Chavannaz. "Bonbright & Co., Paris." Woodward & Lothrop, donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918.... More

Crédit Lyonnais. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt National

A male 'allegorical' figure armed with a sword pulling the French flag away from the Imperial eagle. Translation of title: Crédit Lyonnais. Subscribe to the 4th National Loan. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issu... More

With compass and T-square during World War I

Exhibit poster showing two scenes in which men with partial arm amputations perform mechanical drafting without the need for prostheses. Poster caption: For one-armed men, mechanical drafting has proved a good ... More

British Red Cross ambulance in French service. Northern France

J236503 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18703. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emprunt National 1920. Société Centrale des Banques de Province

Depicts a burning city and cathedral. Framing this scene are coats of arms of French cities. Translation of title: National Loan 1920. Société Centrale des Banques de Province. Signed: Wielhorski ; border sign... More

One of the 4-men German patrol who didn't get back / Victor A. Lundy.

Sketch showing German soldier lying dead on the ground in France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p. 9] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Maison où vit Jean le Jean et Roget, St. Martin d'Audeville

Sketch showing house in France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 6, [p. 47] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

[House] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing house probably in Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 31] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Church in St. Germain de Tournebut

Sketch showing exterior of church in St. Germain de Tournebut, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 3] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Bringing in the wounded "on stretchers stiff and bleared with blood"

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18869. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Fidélité au Roi. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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).

Le calculateur patriote - A drawing of a man sitting at a table

Print shows an accountant sitting at a desk on which are six severed heads, recording a tally of the heads taken and the number that remain due. Henderson, pl. 27 de Vinck, 1615/1616 Blum, 566 Forms part of: F... More

On me raze aujourd'hui - je me marie demain &cc. / A.P.

Print shows, at center, a head on a pole with a wig topped with the horns of cuckoldry awaits the monk, on the right, who is sitting in a chair holding a tray under his chin, a member of the French Guard, about... More

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.

[The house] / A.C. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Man and small house silhouetted against ocean. (DLC/PP-1934:0209). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A robbery on the French coast" by Andre Castaigne, Centur... More

[It was half-past four when the sentence was pronounced upon her and s...

Soldier with bayonet leading convicted woman (Marie Antoinette?) out of French Revolutionary courtroom. (DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "... More

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...

Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stu... More

A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del., ...

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]...

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?

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

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, 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 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

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.

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.

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

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.

"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

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 / 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 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...

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 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.

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 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 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

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]

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, 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-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 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 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

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

French lines captured from the enemy by the Marine Fusileers

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18665. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Shells bursting in ruined French village

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18898. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

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

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

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 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 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

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

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