Jean-Marie Collot d’Herbois demolishing buildings of Lyon. French Revolution.
Tag: Portrait
Paul Barras, Member of the Executive Board.
Paul Barras 1755-1829. Member of the Executive Board Le Directoire.
Brissot de Warville, leader of the Girondins.
Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville called Brissot, publicist and journalist, was the Jacobin and later leader of the Girondins
Charles I King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the House of Stuart.
King Charles, 1600-1649, was from 1625 to 1649 King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the House of Stuart.
Portrait of King James I of England. Son of Mary Stuart.
James Stuart was as James VI from 1567 King of Scotland, and since 1603 until his death in addition as James I King of England and King of Ireland.
Marguerite de Navarre. Coat of arms and emblematic motto.
Marguerite de Navarre also Margaret of Angoulême, Margaret of Valois or Margaret of France, was the elder sister of King Francis I and, as the wife of Henri d’Albret, Queen of Navarre.
Godfrey of Bouillon. First King of Jerusalem.
Godfrey of Bouillon became the first ruler of the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Jacques de Molay. Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Jacques de Molay was the last Grand Master of the Order of the Temple. Jacques de Molay was executed at the stake in 1314.
Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke, Queen of England.
Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke was the second of the six wives of Henry VIII and Queen of England from 1533 to 1536.
Marie Mancini mistress of the French King Louis XIV.
Marie Mancini (1639 -1715) was one of the Mazarinettes and mistress of the French King Louis XIV. She died the same year as her childhood sweetheart, Louis XIV.