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Portrait of the Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836), a leading figure of the Third Estate during the Estates-General of 1789 and the subsequent formation of the National Assembly. Oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David...

Apollo and Diana attacking the Children of Niobe, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1772. Dallas Museum of Art.

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...

An 18th century CE engraving by Jacques Gabriel Huquier illustrating an audience with a Chinese emperor. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Execution of Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) on 31 October 1793, engraving by an anonymous artist, 1793. National Library of France, Paris.

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.

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

Allegory in Honour of the Publication of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, February 13, 1749, oil on canvas by Jacques Dumont, 1761. Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

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...