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Giuseppe Fieschi’s Volley Gun,Giuseppe Fieschi was a Corsican man and French patriot who had s

A French bicycle infantryman with Gladiator folding bike, circa 1896.

Today in History, May 28th, 1754 — The Battle of Jumonville Glen, the First Battle of the Fren

Piti Teina (Two Sisters), Paul Gauguin, 1892

Pastoral Landscape with Stream, Fisherman, and Stroller, Henri Rousseau, between 1875 and 1880

Theocritus, Jean-Charles Cazin, between 1885 and 1890

Apes in the Orange Grove, Henri Rousseau, 1910

Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest, Henri Rousseau, 1905-06

French hunting sword, 18th centuryfrom Morphy Auctions

How Texas saved the French Wine Industry,In 1863 vineyards across France began to whither and die. A

The French MAT-49 submachine gun,By the late 1940’s, the French Army’s supply of submach

Vin Mariani — The Cocaine Wine,In 1863 a French chemist named Angelo Mariani came up with a sp

Study for Wildlife: The Man with the Cluster, Henri Matisse, 1905

Autumn (Méry Laurent), Édouard Manet, 1882

Francois Boucher, print. 

Leveil du coeur (Detail) William Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Cupid (detail)

William Adolphe Bouguereau,  L'Amour et Psyché, enfants

Charles Cressent,c 1740-45, France, detail of a rare Louis XV Ormolu Cartel Clock.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

François Boucher, Two Flying Putti with a DoveRed and black chalk counterproof on off-white antique

Claude Mellan,Angel with a Banderoleetching, first of three    

Joan of Arc vs. The HussitesJoan of Arc was a great commander and a legend in French military histor

The Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun.In 1905 the French experimented with a blow forward machine gun

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