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!
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
A ripe pear, with profile of Napoleon between leaf and branch, falling from a branch.
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.
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...
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] /
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
On les aura! 2e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Souscrivez
A French soldier with gun in one hand, and the other raised urging his comrades on. This was the most remembered French poster produced during the war. Translation of title: We'll get them! The 2nd National De... More
Comité Americain pour les Régions Dévastées de France
A woman in a military uniform is aiding a woman with two small children.
Poster - Un grand fléau la tuberculose - Public domain lithograph
A street scene from an impoverished area. The Grim Reaper is looming in the background.
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
Type of Navy gun in France - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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)
1778-1783 America owes France the most unalterable gratitude. 1917- . ...
An American soldier standing with two children at the grave of a French soldier. Signed: L. Jonas 1918. Another issue: POS - Fr .J65, no. 3 (color; same size). Promotional goal: U.S. G2. 1918. Item is no. 179 a... More
[Woodrow Wilson making speech outdoors to crowd in France, May 30th, 1...
J235789 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.R.M. Public domain photograph of people attending a political event, crowd, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emma Anatole France, Member, Int'l Advisory Comm.
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, full-length, Emma Anatole France standing in garden between two large urns, wearing a headdress, and holding a long flower stalk. Photograph publi... More
Church in Crasville - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing exterior of church in Crasville, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 19] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
Commune de Lestre - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing houses in Lestre, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 15] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
Commune de Lestre - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing houses in Lestre, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 9] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
"Pat" (T/Sgt. Patenaude) zeroing in with the 60 mm mortars in front of...
Sketch showing soldier from behind in France. Annotation at page top: German patrol took Hirshberg today. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p. 7] Victor A. Lundy Archi... More
Off for Berlin! High power autotruck delivering large cannon to the fi...
Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18631. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... 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.
Le représentant du peuple François en fonction / David inv. ; Denon sc...
Print shows a male figure modeling the costume designed by David for legislators. de Vinck, 6648 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Nadar / And. Gill., Nadar Collection 1850-1910
French caricature of photographer and balloonist Nadar, standing next to his camera and holding a quill pen in right hand. A balloon hovers in the background. Illus. in: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 8, 1st no... More
Cognac Gautier Frères France / L. Cappiello.
Poster showing a woman carrying enormous bunches of grapes on her shoulders. Affiches artistiques. Reproduction interdite.
Triomphe de Marat - A cartoon of a man carrying a woman on his back
Jean Paul Marat with crown of laurel leaves carried on shoulders of man around whom others are crowded; celebrating his acquittal by Revolutionary Tribunal.
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.
J'suis du Tiers-état - A drawing of a man holding a wine glass
Cartoon about the supremacy of the 3rd estate, the people, showing man from the 3rd estate holding up wine bottle and glass. Translated title: I am of the 3rd estate. de Vinck, 2023-24 UCLA, 40 Blum, 37
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
[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
Grand chemin de la posterite / Benjamin.
Print showing a procession of French artists and writers as caricatured by Benjamin Roubaud. Those depicted are: Hugo, T. Gauthier, Cassagnac, Francis Wey, Paul Fouché, Eugène Sue, A. Dumas, La Martine, Soulié,... 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
[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]
Print shows ornate carriage in which are riding well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads. The carriage is drawn by two horned deer; standing on a platform at the rear is a women holding a baton... More
La coup des bois - A drawing of a man falling off a horse
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, possibly a woman, kneeling on top of a fallen friar, cutting wooden branches or horns from his head. Caption continues: Quel besogne, Grand Dieu ni moi ni mes petits e... More
L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].
Allegorical print showing Father Time parting the stormy skies of recent days to reveal Louis XVI eagerly accepting the truth offered by Justice and the arrival of Jacques Necker, recalled on 16 July 1789, as F... More
Trois tetes sous l'meme bonnet - A painting of a man sitting in front ...
Print shows a neatly dressed man sitting on a bundle surrounded by implements of the Third Estate and holding a large triangle topped with a liberty cap, within the triangle are images of a cleric, an aristocra... More
Le corps Aristocratique sous la figure d'une femme expirant dans les b...
Print shows a plainly-dressed female figure dying in the arms of a man, representing the nobility, as two other men, one checking her pulse, stand nearby.
Le concert L'essentielle est d'accorder nos instruments pour que l'har...
Print shows three men playing musical instruments; they represent the clergy, the aristocracy, and the third estate. Trimmed within plate. de Vinck, 2050/2051 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection... 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
Les moines aprenant à faire l'exercise
Cartoon showing four men, monks, wearing the uniform of the National Guard marching in a disorderly manner. Caption continues: ...avec de la patience nous en viendrons about et avec le temps nous marcherons com... More
Ha je seront ben content quand j'aurons tous ces papiers la - le treso...
Print shows a cleric, an aristocrat, and a member of the Third Estate who is pulling on a rope tied to a bundle of papers including the "Nouvelle Constitution" and "Vœux de la Nation" which are held aloft by a ... 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
[View of a city on a river] - Engraving, Public domain image
Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Un vieux port de la Normandie (Marée basse) / Lalanne.
Beraldi, 114 No. LCF 325. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Olive branch. Peace and union. How shall we obtain them?
Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Nadar / And. Gill., Nadar Collection 1850-1910
French caricature of photographer and balloonist Nadar hanging onto the rope netting around a balloon which appears to have lost its basket. Illus. in: La lune, no. 65, 2 juin 1867, cover. Tissandier collection.
Léon Gambetta / Yves & Barret, sc. ; And. Gill.
French caricature of Léon Gambetta, French republican statesman, leaning on the back of a chair and looking up at vignettes of himself. He escaped the Siege of Paris in the balloon, "L'Armand Barbes" October 7,... 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.
Puck magazine cover - Pouf! goes the "league" / Dalrymple.
Print shows a large frog labeled "La Ligue Patriotique" and "Paul Déroulède" sitting on a lily pad labeled "Anti-Semitism"; standing on the shore is a man, wearing a phrygian cap and holding a paper that states... More
Pâtes aux œufs et aux légumes. Nouilles, macaronis. Ferrari, Opéra, Pa...
Poster for noodles and pasta, showing a number of celebrities, each identified, some holding packages of the product. Names, left to right: Mounet-Sully; Lavallière; Baron; Jane Hading; Coquelin Aine; Réjane; ... More
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.'
Protection du réformé, no. 2. Assistance aux malades et blessés de la ...
The letters P and R and the no. 2 form a large backdrop for a seated wounded soldier and a woman holding an infant. Translation of title: Support for category no. 2 veterans. Aid for the sick and wounded disch... More
Der Amerikanische Weihnachtsmann / H.V. Pl.
Print shows a skeleton, draped in the American flag, handing ammunition from a box marked Bethlehem Steel Company to African and Indian soldiers firing at German soldiers. In the lower right corner a vignette s... More
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
Pour le Foyer du Soldat Aveugle
A blind soldier holding a small girl. Translation of title: On behalf of the blind soldier's home. Signed: Lévy Dhurmer. Promotional goal: Fr. G2. 1917. Item is no. 182 in a printed checklist available in the ... More
[Third Battalion 13th Regiment Heavy Field Artillery, Fourth Division,...
Title from United States. War Dept. General Staff. Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs, volume 2, page 56. No. 21814.
Emprunt de la Libération. Souscrivez. Banque Centrale de Crédit
A cherub holding a French flag and putting a coin in a large cup labeled 'Victoire.' At the base of the cup are German soldiers who are getting wet from the overflow from the cup. Translation of title: Libera... More
Crédit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France
A farmer ploughing with two oxen. In the foreground is a wooden cross with flowers and commemorative ribbons on it. The farmer is doffing his cap to the cross. Translation of title: Crédit Lyonnais. The 1920 N... More
American munition train, protected against air attack by anti-aircraft...
No. 18967. Public domain photograph of train car, engine, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
War orphans from unoccupied France, benefiting from supplies of milk, ...
Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Quinéville - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing houses and wall in Quinéville, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 13] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
French farmer, St. Martin d'Audeville
Sketch showing portrait of man in France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 6, [p. 49] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
Bourg de Lestre - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing house in Lestre, Manche, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 7, [p. 49] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).
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
Sharpshooters in protected position near enemy lines
Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18846. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More
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
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
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
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
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
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 ; 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 ...
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. ...
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]...
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
Messieurs Delaunay, Flexelles, Berthier, Foulon, et les deux Gardes du...
Print shows Charon accepting the baker Sr. Remy, mistakenly beheaded, into his boat while rejecting several government officials and guardsmen, all who carry their severed heads atop pikes; on the opposite shor... More
Monsieur veto - A drawing of a group of people on a street
Print shows a monstrous giant, representing monarchical veto powers, is welcomed at an entryway by a nobleman; he has scales on his hands and feet, carries a bar used to enchain prisoners, symbolizing despotism... More
L'allégorie est assez claire, pour se passer de comentaire
Print shows the god Mercury/Hermes hung on a gibbet with a ribbon labeled "caisse d'escompte" and his hands bound with a ribbon labeled "traite de comerce"; from his feet hangs a sheet stating "Droits desportat... More
La France Figurée sous un Globe est soutenu du Peuple La Noblesse et l...
Print shows a nobleman dressed as a knight and a bishop standing on either side of a globe which is resting on the shoulders of a member of the Third Estate, indicating that the burden of supporting the state w... More
Figures du traite de la pesanteur de l'air
Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Gravier comte de Vergennes - conseiller d'Etat ordinaire, mini...
Print shows Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at ornately carved desk featuring portrait of Louis XVI. Includes armorial shield below portrait. S... More
Alphabeth de la Bourbonnoise - Public domain dedication image
Print shows nude female figure forming the letters of the alphabet. Irregularly trimmed within plate mark. Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Sans vous je périssoit - Public domain book illustration, Library of C...
Allegory showing three soldiers saving "France" who is falling from a cliff and a monument to the taking of the Bastille in the background. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Holland in 1790. Source:... More
Le maitre de danse des aristocrates, allons donc l'Abbe cochon en mesu...
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with a turkey-cock at his side, beating a drum and wielding a whip to make dance a pig dressed as an abbot and a dog dressed in Spanish clothing. de Vinck, 3677 Blum, ... More
M.M.J. Robespierre Député de l'Artois, à l'Assemblée Nationale en 1789...
Print shows Maximilien Robespierre, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, in oval. de Vinck, 6533 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Representing Revolu... More
La grande aiguiserie royale de poignards Anglais
Print shows George III, identified as "Georges Dandin", inside a large wheel driving a grinding stone at which stands William Pitt sharpening a knife. Caption continues: Le fameux Ministre Pitt aiguisant les p... More
Le Boureau / Js. Gy. d. & ft., British Cartoon Print, James Gillray
Cartoon shows George Tierney dressed as an executioner standing next to a guillotine with a crowd of liberty-capped citizens in the background. One of a series of twelve: French Habits, No. 6. Forms part of: Br... More