Images

Montpellier, 1622, engraving by Michel de Mathoniere. Musée du Vieux Montpellier

Louis XIII Crowned by Victory, oil on canvas by Philippe de Champaigne, 1635. Louvre, Paris.

Portrait of Richelieu, oil on canvas by Philippe de Champaigne, 1642. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.

Henry II, Duke of Rohan (1579-1638), oil on canvas portrait by Jean-Pierre Franque, 1838. Palace of Versailles.

A depiction of the Coup of 18 Brumaire; the deputies of the Council of 500 rush to accost Napoleon Bonaparte, who is surrounded by his loyal grenadiers; his brother Lucien Bonaparte stands at the president's chair, trying to quiet the assembly...

In the aftermath of the Coup of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte convenes a meeting of 25 deputies from each of the two councils of the French Directory, to finalize the abolition of the Constitution of Year III and to form the French Consulate...

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as First Consul of France, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Curtius Museum, Liège.

The memorial containing the ashes of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in the grounds of his home, Troldhaugen, by Lake Nordås, Bergen, Norway.

A photograph taken by Hansen Weller of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), taken c. 1870 when he was in Copenhagen. (Bergen Public Library, Norway)

A c. 1907 photograph taken by E. Bieber of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) at the piano. (Bergen Public Library, Norway)