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The Noyades of Nantes
Painting dramatizing the Drownings at Nantes during the Reign of Terror. By an anonymous author, housed in the Château des ducs de Bretagne.
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The Twelve Articles
Title page of the Twelve Articles of the German Peasants' War (1525), from page 21 of Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes by Otto Henne am Rhyn, Berlin 1897.
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Boreas, the North Wind
A detail of a red-figure pottery vase showing Boreas, the god of the North Wind in Greek mythology. From Attica, 440-430 BCE. (Cabinet des médailles, Paris)
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Cavalry Fight at Möckern
Cavalry fight at the village of Möckern, part of the Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813), illustration from the German-language book Geschichte des Husaren-Regiments von Zieten (Brandenburgisches) Vol. 3 by Armand Freiherr, Ardenne Berlin...
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Execution of the Duke of Enghien
The execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien on 21 March 1804, by firing squad. Enghien's controversial execution turned much of Europe's aristocracy against Napoleon and served as a catalyst for the War of the Third Coalition...
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Valeria Messalina Cameo
A cameo depicting Valeria Messalina and her children, wife of Roman emperor Claudius. (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris)
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Battle of Aspern-Essling, May 1809
The Battle of Aspern-Essling, 21-22 May 1809, between French and Austrian armies. The battle resulted in an Austrian victory and marked Napoleon's first major battlefield defeat in a decade. Oil on canvas painting by Fernand Cormon. Musée...
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Jaques Cartier
A portrait of Jaques Cartier (1491-1557 CE) a French-Breton maritime explorer. He was the first European who mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. He was also the one who named these lands "The Country...
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Prairial Uprising of Year III
Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand Féraud in the...
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Neolithic Tumulus Interior, Locmariaquer
The interior chamber of the stone burial mound known as the Table-des-Marchands (Table of Merchants) at the Neolithic site of Locmariaquer in north-west France. The tomb was constructed in the 5th millennium BCE and is so called because of...
