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Napoleon Crossing the Alps, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1805. Château de Malmaison.

Sarai (Sarah) Is Taken to Pharaoh's Palace by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1896-1902 CE. Jewish Museum, New York

The title page of Second Discourse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), first published in 1755.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman), tableau by Jacques-Edmond Leman (1829-1889).

Committee of Public Safety emblem, 1794. Designed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.

A photograph of the oceanographic research ship Calypso, used by Jacques-Yves Cousteau for various expeditions from 1951 until the mid-1990s. Taken in Montreal in 1980.

An 1862 oil on canvas painting, Music in the Tuileries Gardens, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. This work has often been called the first modern painting since it broke the artistic convention that artists avoided...

Antoinette Gabrielle Charpentier (1762-1793), first wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton (1759-1794). She died in childbirth while Danton was on mission in Belgium. Oil on canvas portrait by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Musée...

Norse god Freyr, here shown alongside the boar – one of his attributes – named Gullinborsti as per Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241). Artwork by Jacques Reich (1852-1923).

An 18th-century painting by Jacques-Louis David of Lycurgus of Sparta, aka, 'the Lawgiver', the legendary Spartan ruler (9th century BCE?) credited with defining the city's famous emphasis on military endeavour.