mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, French actress, 1885. Madeleine Brohan (1833-1900) starred with the Comedie Francaise. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres
Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist, 1884. Dumass (1824-1895) novel La dame aux camelias (The Lady of the Camellias)
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer, 1882. Brazzas (1852-1905) explorations of the Congo paved the way to the establishment of French colonies in West Africa
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, with his family, 1882. Eiffels (1832-1923) most historic and best-known work is the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exposition of 1889
Gustave Nadaud, French songwriter, 1880. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonnier, French painter and sculptor, 1880. Meissonier (1815-1891) was famous for his military paintings depicting Napoleon and his armies
Theodore de Banville, French poet and writer, 1873. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Victor Hugo, French author, 1872. Born in Besancon, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a central figure in the French Romantic movement
Francois Certain Canrobert, French general, 1869. After serving in Africa, Canrobert (1809-1895) was appointed aide-de-camp to President Louis-Napoleon
Alphonse Daudet, French novelist, 1869. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Emile Littre, French philosopher and lexicographer, 1869. Littre (1801-1881) compiled the Dictionnaire de la langue francaise (Dictionary of the French language)
Emile de Girardin, French journalist, publicist and politician, 1866. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical artist, 1841. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, 1858. Jerome (1784-1860) was King of Westphalia from 1807-1813. He served in Napoleons Russian campaign and at the Battle of Waterloo
Louis Napoleon, French Prince Imperial, in British uniform, 1871-1879. Louis Napoleon (1856-1879) was the only child of the Emperor Napoleon III
Emperor Napoleon III of France in exile, Chislehurst, Kent, 1871-1873. The Emperor and his family were forced to flee into exile after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War led to
The French Imperial Family in exile, Chislehurst, Kent, 1871-1873. Emperor Napoleon III of France, Empress consort Eugenie de Montijo, and Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial
Dr TW Evans, American dentist and biographer of Napoleon III, 19th century. Thomas Wiltberger Evans first treated Louis-Napoleon, the future Emperor Napoleon III
Eugenie de Montijo, Empress Consort of Napoleon III of France, c1865-1875. A Spanish noblewoman, Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920) was the last Empress Consort of France
Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial, c1865-1868Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial, prepared to meet the King of Prussia, c1870-1871. Louis Napoleon (1856-1879) was the only child of the Emperor Napoleon III
Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial, c1861-1864. Louis Napoleon (1856-1879) was the only child of the Emperor Napoleon III. His early death signalled an end to any hopes for the restoration of
Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial, as a young child, c1858. Louis Napoleon (1856-1879) was the only child of the Emperor Napoleon III
Leconte de Lisle, French poet, 1877. Charles Marie Rene Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) was a poet of the Parnassian movement
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Lucay, French politician and author, 1904. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French artist, 1900. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist, 1880. Fabre (1823-1915) examining specimens through a magnifying glass. He wrote numerous books on the anatomy and behaviour of insects
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author, 1890. Flammarion (1842-1925) was the author of more than 50 books on popular science, astronomy and science fiction
Jules Renard, French, 1900Jules Renard in 1900, (1865-1905). A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman, 1897. Clemenceau (1841-1929) served as Prime Minister of France from 1906-1909. He returned to the premiership in 1917 during the First World War
Baron Pere, 1883. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris
Georges Ohnet, French novelist, 1883. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris
Suzanne Reichenberg, French actress, 1883. The dessert Crepes Suzette is named after Suzanne (Suzette) Reichenberg (1853-1924)
French Imperial Family, 1866. Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie and their family. Napoleon III became Emperor in 1852. A photograph from Album de Photographies
Ice hockey, St Moritz, Switzerland
Church and Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland
Photographer and child, c19th century
Horse-drawn fire engine, c19th century
David Killing Goliath. David killing the Philistine giant with a stone from his sling. According to the Bible, Goliath was 6 cubits (approximately 3 metres) tall. From the Bible (1 Samuel 17:I)
Mountaineers, late 19th or early 20th century
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, State Opening of Parliament, Westminster, c1902-1909
Lord Roberts entering Pretoria, Boer War, South Africa, 1900 (1925). Pretoria, the Boer capital of the South African Republic (Transvaal)
Louis de Broglie, French physicist, 1933. De Broglies (1892-1987) work on a new branch of quantum physics called wave mechanics won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929
Collette, French novelist. Colette was the pen-name of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), who is best known for her novel Gigi (1944)
Andre Antoine, French actor, theatre manager and film director, 1935. Antoine (1858-1943) is regarded as the inventor of modern mise en scene in France
Serge Voronoff, Russian-born French surgeon, 1923. Voronoff (1866-1951) became famous for his therapeutic technique of grafting of tissue from monkey testicles onto the testicles of humans in
Jacques Doucet, French fashion designer, 1927. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L Arcade, Paris 8, 1850-1950
Pierre Paul Emile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, 1928. Roux (1853-1933) was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur
Jean Mermoz, French pilot, 1935. Mermoz (1901-1936) was a pioneering airmail pilot, flying between France and Africa and South America. He disappeared over the sea during a flight in December 1936
