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Boissy d'Anglas

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Close Title: Boissy d'Anglas salutes the head of deputy Féraud at the National Convention, May 20, 1795 Author: TELLIER Jean-Auguste (-) Creation date: 1830 Date represented: May 20, 1795 Dimensions: Height 85 - Width 110 Technique and other information: Oil on canvas Presented in the 1830 competition for the Chamber of Deputies, not retained; Libert collection; purchase, 1900 Place of Conservation: National Museum of the Palace of Versailles (Versailles) website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais Boissy d'Anglas salutes deputy Féraud at the National Convention, May 20, 1795 © Photo RMN-Grand Palais Date of publication : October 2003 Historical background After the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794), the sans-culottes who had hardly reacted to support him, very quickly felt that the Thermidorian reaction was against their interests.

The Bourgeois of Calais

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Monument to the Burghers of CalaisRODIN Auguste (1840 - 1917) Monument to the Burghers of Calais, LondonRODIN Auguste (1840 - 1917) Monument to the Burghers of Calais © Rodin Museum - photo Jean de CalanCloseTitle: Monument to the Burghers of Calais, LondonAuthor: RODIN Auguste (1840 - 1917) Technique and other indications: London (Great Britain), Victoria Tower Gardens, cast 1908, installed in London in 1915 Contact copyright: © Demerzel21 - Fotolia.

Busts-charges of bankers by Honoré Daumier

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Benjamin Delessert.DAUMIER Honoré (1808 - 1879) Antoine Odier.DAUMIER Honoré (1808 - 1879) Jacques Lefevre.DAUMIER Honoré (1808 - 1879) Close Title: Benjamin Delessert.Author: DAUMIER Honoré (1808 - 1879) Date represented: Dimensions: Height 18.7 - Width 5 Technique and other indications: Painted mud sculpture.

Cardinal Richelieu: images and power

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Cardinal de Richelieude CHAMPAIGNE Philippe (1602 - 1674) Triple portrait of cardinal Richelieude CHAMPAIGNE Philippe (1602 - 1674) Close Title: Cardinal Richelieu Author: de CHAMPAIGNE Philippe (1602 - 1674) Creation date: 1639 -Date represented: 1639 Dimensions: Height 222 cm - Width 155 cm Place of Conservation: Louvre museum (Paris) website Contact copyright: RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre museum) / Stéphane Maréchalle Image reference: 17-526065 / INV1136 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) Louvre) / Stéphane MaréchalleClose Title: Triple portrait of Cardinal Richelieu Author: de CHAMPAIGNE Philippe (1602 - 1674) Date of creation: 1642 -Date represented: 1642 Dimensions: Height 58.7 cm - Width 72.8 cm Place of Conservation: National Gallery site webContact copyright : The National Gallery, London, Dist.

The Panama Canal

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The Interoceanic Canal Piercing of the Isthmus of Panama.ROTY Louis-Oscar (1846 - 1911) Breaking of the Isthmus of Panama.ROTY Louis-Oscar (1846 - 1911) CloseTitle: The Interoceanic Canal.Author: Date of creation: 1880Date represented: 1880Dimensions: Height 23.4 - Width 31.5 Technique and other indications: View of the various localities that the canal must cross.

Bonaparte touching the plague victims

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Close Title: Bonaparte touching the plague victims Author: THIEBAULT Jean-Baptiste (1809 - 1839) Date represented: March 11, 1799 Dimensions: Height 41.8 - Width 64 Technique and other indications: Wood stencil colored on paper Edited in Epinal at Pellerin Place of Conservation : MuCEM site webContact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - D.

The Gold Sheet camp

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Interview with Francis I and Henry VIII at the Drap d & 39; or camp on June 7, 1520.BOUTERWEK Friedrich (1806 - 1867) Interview with Francis I and Henry VIII at the Drap d & 39; or camp on the 7th June 1520. detail of the pavilions of François Ier BOUTERWEK Friedrich (1806 - 1867) Interview of François I and Henry VIII at the Drap d & 39; or camp on June 7, 1520.

Political cartoons and pamphlets (1830-1835)

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"Follow your leader carefully ...", "You see my friend, the Republic would not suit us ..." Obstinate chants. Pamphlet de Bérard. Letter from a republican on the misery of the workers and the means to put an end to it, or Republican France Close Title: "Follow your leader ...", Author: Creation date: 1834 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 24.2 - Width 30.5 Technique and other indications: caricature showing a polytechnician giving Charles X and Louis-Philippe exercise.

The celebration of the memory of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

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Home ›Studies› The celebration of the memory of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Height 32.4 - Width 45.8 Technique and other indications: Indian ink wash, pen (drawing), heightened with white.

The hunt under Louis XV

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The hunting lunch. Title from the Louvre notice: "A Hunting Lunch & 34 ;. detail of the central partTROY Jean-François de (1679 - 1752) The lion hunt.TROY Jean-François de (1679 - 1752) The Oyster Lunch.TROY Jean-François de (1679 - 1752) CloseTitle: The lunch of hunting. detail of the central part Author: TROY Jean-François de (1679 - 1752) Creation date: 1737 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 241 - Width 170 Technique and other indications: Oil on canvas Place of Conservation: Louvre museum (Paris) website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski Image reference: 05-535071 / RF1990-18 The hunting lunch.

Cartography in the service of the monarchy: the Cassini map

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Home ›Studies› Cartography in the service of the monarchy: the map of CassiniClose Title: Map of Cassini, detail of sheet 125, Cherbourg Date represented: Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0 Technique and other indications: Watercolor engraving Place of conservation: Departmental archives de la Manche website Contact copyright: © General Council of Manche, departmental archives Image reference: Cassini map, sheet 125 (detail: Cherbourg) Cassini map, sheet 125 detail, Cherbourg.

Champollion, decipherer of hieroglyphics

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Close Title: Jean François Champollion Author: COGNIET Léon (1794 - 1880) Date of creation: 1831 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 73.5 - Width 60 Technique and other indications: Oil on canvas Place of conservation: Louvre museum (Paris) website Contact copyright : © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - R.

Charlotte corday

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Close Title: Charlotte Corday in Caen in 1793 Author: ROBERT-FLEURY Tony (1838 - 1911) Date represented: 1793 Dimensions: Height 210 - Width 125 Technique and other indications: Oil on canvas Place of conservation: Musée Bonnat website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - RG Ojeda Image reference: 99-012295 / CM177 Charlotte Corday in Caen in 1793.

Anti-republican charge

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Apotheosis or the triumph of the scoundrel.BOUTET-DE-MONVEL Maurice (1884 - 1949) The kid of Paris at the Tuileries.DAUMIER Honoré (1808 - 1879) Louis XIV receives the Ambassadors of the King of Siam in Versailles.COYPEL Antoine (1661 - 1722) Apotheosis or the triumph of the scoundrel. © Musée des Beaux Arts d & 39; Orléans Le gamin de Paris aux Tuileries.

The railway, symbol of a new industrial revolution

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Home ›Studies› The railway, symbol of a new industrial revolutionCloseTitle: Saint-Lazare station.Author: MONET Claude (1840 - 1926) School: ImpressionismDate of creation: 1877Date represented: 1877Dimensions: Height 75.5 - Width 104Technique and other indications: Oil on canvas Place of Conservation: Musée d & 39; Orsay website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - H.

Unemployment in Paris and Lyon in 1831

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Freed people whose happiness begins ... TRAVIES DE VILLERS Charles Joseph (1804 - 1859) The most perfect order also reigns in Lyon.TRAVIES OF VILLERS Charles Joseph (1804 - 1859) CloseTitle: Freed people whose happiness begins. ..Author: TRAVIES DE VILLERS Charles Joseph (1804 - 1859) Creation date: 1831Date represented: 1831Dimensions: Height 22.8 - Width 30Technique and other indications: Lithograph by Delaporte.

The circus in Paris

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Hippodrome.LEVY CharlesFolies Bergères - L & 39; homme obus.ANONYMEFolies-Bergères - Huline brother & 39; s.ANONYMOUSClose Title: Hippodrome.Author: LEVY Charles (-) Date represented: Dimensions: Height 125.6 - Width 99.8 Technique and other indications : Lithography Place of Conservation: MuCEM website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - G.

The fall of royalty

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Close Title: The Capture of the Tuileries Palace, Cour du Carrousel, August 10, 1792 Author: BERTAUX Jacques (1745 - 1818) Creation date: 1793 Date represented: August 10, 1792 Dimensions: Height 124 - Width 192 Technique and other indications: Presented at the Salon des French artists, Paris, 1793 Oil on canvas Place of Conservation: National Museum of the Palace of Versailles (Versailles) website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - G.

From class to stage, the Paris Opera ballet seen by Edgar Degas

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Home ›Studies› From the classroom to the stage, the Paris Opera ballet seen by Edgar DegasThe dance class.DEGAS Edgar (1834 - 1917) The Foyer de la danse at the Opéra de rue Le Peletier .DEGAS Edgar (1834 - 1917) Dancers walking up a staircase. DEGAS Edgar (1834 - 1917) Rehearsal of a ballet on the stage.

The Kieffer commandos

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© Mémorial de Caen Publication date: May 2016 Historical background The 1st Commando Marine Rifle Battalion This photograph, taken between June 1943 and June 1944, shows some members of the commandos training in Scotland. Created on April 2, 1942 and placed under the command of Lieutenant Kieffer (promoted Lieutenant-Commander on June 5, 1944), the Commando Marines Battalion (BFMC) is integrated into the Special Service Brigade, within the Interallied Commando No. 10 ( and, therefore, placed under British authority).