Bruno Braquehais
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Auguste Bruno Braquehais was a French photographer active primarily in Paris in the mid-19th century, in partnership with his wife Laure Mathilde Gouin. His photographic work documenting the 1871 Pari
Stereoscopic plate of a reclining female nude, taken by Braquehais ca. 1856
Communards pose with the toppled statue of Napoleon following the destruction of the Vendôme Column on 8 May 1871
The Vendôme Column before the fall
Nude Study with the Venus de Milo
Adolphe Thiers
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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republ
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1870s
The Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Thiers's first employer in Paris
Prince Talleyrand, Thiers's political mentor, in 1828
First page of Histoire de la Révolution française