EditorialAustrian ministers demanding that Colonel Jean Marie-Joseph Coutelle descend from his balloon during the siege of Mainz, 1793. Woodblock engraving by Mes from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons),...
EditorialMarie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), known as simply Lafayette. French aristocrat and military officer. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during th...
Editorial"Le Caf? du Caveau" (coffeehouse in the cellar) in the Palais-Royal. It is also known as the "Perron", which was attended by artists and writers of the time, Marie-Joseph Ch?nier, Jacques-Louis David and politicians. Lithograph; 18th century.