Detail of a 17th-century painting: a boy in a red costume with a blue sash
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The Church of the Invalides in Paris in a Lithograph of 1840
Les Invalides. Lithograph of 1840
Yves Saint Laurent as a Child
Yves Saint Laurent as a child
Napoleon's Sarcophagus of Shoksha Quartzite and the Unrest near Les Invalides in Paris
Disturbances in Paris, literally at Les Invalides, the tomb of Napoleon. I think it would have taken him less than an hour to remove the cause of the noise, were it not for the 35-tonne sarcophagus of crimson Shoksha quartzite, brought from Russia by order of Nicholas I
The Trial of Marie Antoinette before the Revolutionary Tribunal on 14 October 1793
When Marie Antoinette was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal on the first day of her two-day trial, 14 October 1793, the jurors who had received their summonses were informed that "the vengeance of the people is in your hands", which amounts to indicating, in this fashion, the