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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) French chemist and physicist. Engraving c1895
Marie Curie (1867-1935) Polish-born French physicist who, with her husband Pierre (1859-1906), centre, carried out research on radioactivity and shared the Nobel prize for physics with him
Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832) French historian and linguist: founder of scientific Egyptology. His name carved into pillar at Temple of Karnak (Luxor)
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: French prisonser of war camp at Wahn, near Cologne, 1870. The correspondent remarks on the improvement of conditions for prisoners since Waterloo forty years before
Ferney near Geneva, Switzerland, 1786. The chateau where Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer and pholosopher, embodiment of the Enlightenment, settled after 1758
Napoleon retreating from Moscow, 1812. Of the 600, 000 soldiers of his Grande Armee, only about 100, 000 returned. Early 20th century book illustration
August (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948) Lumiere. French chemists and pioneers of cinematography. Reverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography (1895-1945)
Henri Philippe Omer Petain (11856-1951) French soldier and statesman: superseded Nivelle as Commander-in-Chief, May 1917, Head of Vichy government after 1940. Chromolithograph card 1917
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) French entomologist. Cover of booklet published 1933 with illustration showing a parasitic wasp which will lay its eggs in the caterpillar where they will hatch
Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun introduced by French during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. 37 barrels, operated by 5 men could deliver 482 rounds per minute. From The Graphic, London, 1870
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: Once More into the Sun, 1870. Wounded German officers in the Germany military hospital at Versailles being given fresh air and sunshine to aid their recovery
Robert Nivelle (1857-1924) French general. Commander-in-Chief December 1916 to May 1917: superseded by Petain. Chromolithograph card 1917
Joan of Arc (c1412-31) St Joan, St Jeanne d Arc, the Maid of Orleans. French patriot and martyr. Joan at the head of the French army. Early 20th century illustration
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist. Tinted lithograph published London c1880
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) French entomologist at the little table in his study at Serignan
Jean Baptiste Kleber (1753-1800) French soldier. Commanded French forces in Egypt after Napoleon left. Kleber was assassinated in Cairo by an Egyptian fanatic. Hand-coloured engraving
Pierre-Paul-Francois-Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905) French explorer, founder of Brazzaville (1883) in the Belgian Congo. Wood engraving 1882
Marie CURIE (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist, with her sisters Hela Szalay and Bronya Dluska and brother Joseph Sklodovski in Warsaw, 1912
Rene Descartes universe showing matter filling it collected in vortices with star at centre of each, often with orbiting planets. Path of comet shown by wavy line starting at N
Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1903) French physiologist. Pioneer of cinematography. From obverse of commemorative plaquette
15th century French representation of battle between Bacchides, general of Demetrius I Soter (c187-150 BC) Seleucid King of Syria
Munchausen, surprising artillerymen by arriving in their midst mounted on a cannon ball. From RE Raspe The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, first published 1785
Marie (1867-1934) and Pierre (1859-1906) Curie pictured in their early married life when they enjoyed cycling in the French countryside
Blaise Pascal (1623-62) French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and theologian. Steel engraving c1830
Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1769-1821. Napoleon in exile. Contemporary aquatint
Ambrose Pare (1509-1590) French military surgeon. From The Gallery of Portraits, Vol.V, Charles Knight, London, 1835
Louis XIV (1638-1715) King of France from 1643. Equestrian portrait of Louis as a boy (1648)
Reconstruction by French archaeologist Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy of the palace of Artaxerxes II Mnemon, Achaemenian king of Persia 404-359 BC, at Susa (Shush, Iran). Engraving 1891
Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in 1929
Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1769-1821. Emperor of France from 1804. Napoleon as a young man. Lithograph c1830
Descartes idea of vision, showing passage of nervous impulse from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes Opera Philosophica, 1692 (Tractatus de homine). Woodcut
Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) French entomologist examining an insect through a hand lens or magnifying glass
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist. Reverse of medal issued in 1967 to commemorate the centenary of her birth and celebrating the isolation of Polonium
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice Macmahon (1808-1893) Duc de Magenta, c1880. French soldier and statesman. President of France (1873-1879). From The Modern Portrait Gallery. (London c1880)
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist. Obverse of medal issued in 1967 to commemorate the centenary of her birth
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) c1800. Emperor of France from 1804. Engraving
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre (1852-1931) French soldier. Commander-in-Chief French forces 1915-16. Marshal of France. Chromolithograph card 1917
Pierre Curie (1859-1906) French chemist, husband of Marie Curie. In 1903 shared Nobel prize for physics with Marie and with Henri Becquerel for work on radioactivity
Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist driving the Renault car converted into a radiological unit which, from August 1914, she drove from hospital to hospital
(Jean) Frederick Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), French physicist, in about 1930. The apparatus is a Wilson cloud chamber. Joliot became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925
Crusaders embarking for the Holy Land. Page from 15th century Statutes of Order of Saint Esprit. Banners show Papal arms, those of Holy Roman Emperor and the kings of England, France and Sicily
Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822) French chemist. Portrait from obverse of commemorative medal
Pierre and Marie Curie. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, December 1904. In 1903 Curies shared Nobel prize for physics with Henri Becquerel for work on radioactivity
Michel Ney (1769-1815) French soldier. Led rearguard of the 1812 retreat from Moscow: commanded French centre at Waterloo. Hand-coloured engraving
Sebastian le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) French military engineer. Engraving
Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, left, with Paul Ehrenfest, Paul Langevin (1872-1946), French physicist, centre, Kammerling-Onnes and Pierre Weiss
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1820. The theory that different mental powers are governed by particular regions of the brain which can be recognised by
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