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The history of the voyages of Scarmentado. A satire. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire
Voltaire- E-books
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Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau. Viz. I. A satire upon equivocation, against the Jesuits. ... VIII. M. Le Verrier's Speech to the French Academy, upon the death of M. Boileau. Made English by several hands
Boileau-Despr{acute}eaux, Nicolas- E-books
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Micromegas: a comic romance. Being a severe satire upon the philosophy, ignorance, and self-conceit of mankind. Together with a detail of the crusades: and a new plan for the history of the human mind. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire
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The perjur'd monarch: a satire on the K--g of P--ssia. Translated from the original French by J. W---s. This piece having raised the curiosity of all Europe, has been handed about by the Embassadors of all the courts, and is justly esteemed the soul of sa
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The life and adventures of Don Bilioso de L'Estomac / Translated from the original Spanish into French; done from the French into English. With a letter to the College of Physicians.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: 1719- Books
Némésis, satire hebdomadaire / [Barthélemy].
Barthélemy, 1796-1867.Date: 1832- E-books
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The satires of Horace. In Latin and English. With critical notes collected from the best Latin and French commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis, Rector of Skeyton in Norfolk. Vol. III
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Un écho de la Révolution : Au pays des gorilles avec Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) / Pierre Duhem ; introduction par Stanley L. Jaki.
Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, 1861-1916.Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
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A journey to London in the year 1698 : after the ingenuous method of that made by Dr. Martin Lyster to Paris in the same year, &c. / written originally in French by Monsieur Sorbiere and newly translated into English.
King, William, 1663-1712Date: 1698- Books
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A journey to London in the year 1698 : after the ingenuous method of that made by Dr. Martin Lyster to Paris, in the same year, &c. / witten [sic] originally in French by Monsieur Sorbiere, and newly translated into English.
King, William, 1663-1712Date: 1699- Pictures
The funeral of French hegemony in Europe due to defeats under Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession. Etching, ca. 1706.
Date: [1706?]Reference: 2138530i- Pictures
A mountain, representing the battle of Mons (Bergen), giving birth to a mouse (representing the French army) which is killed by a man representing the Grand Alliance. Etching attributed to A. Allard, 1709.
Date: [1709]Reference: 2139917iPart of: Lust-hof van Momus.- Pictures
A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parllt. June 13th 1771Reference: 10930iPart of: 24 caricatures by several ladies gentlemen artists- Pictures
The British lion with one paw cut off stands before the French cock pecking at the Union flag, while Admiral Byng points to a battle plan. Engraving, 1756.
Date: [1756]Reference: 579983i- Pictures
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Larevellière-Lépeaux sits in a disordered quack doctor's room, in the presence of seven wounded French generals, one of them vomiting; representing French defeats in 1799 and Bonaparte's failed imperial ambitions in the east. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 20 June 1799Reference: 12187i- Pictures
The diminished Napoleon before his despondent relief troops squeezed into the skeletons of their predecessors, referring to French military losses. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1813Reference: 12209i- Pictures
A French physician on his rounds with his entourage. Etching by J. Caldwell, 1771, after M. Brandoin.
Brandoin, Michel Vincent, 1733-1807.Date: Published as the Act directs 20 October 1771Reference: 10943i- Pictures
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A young English woman returning from Paris with her French governesss is not recognized by her uncle, aunt and sister owing to her French speech and clothes. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
L., E.H., active 1816-1817.Date: Augt. 1st 1835Reference: 28527i- Pictures
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Napoleon, nursing his infant, receives the news of the defeat of the French by Wellington at Masséna. Aquatint, 1811.
Date: 1 May 1811Reference: 38439i- Pictures
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A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 664647i- Pictures
A mock escutcheon for a united, British republican college of health practitioners; representing British debate over the French Revolution. Coloured etching, 1798.
Date: publish'd as the Act directs April 6 1798Reference: 12185i- E-books
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Taciturna and Jocunda: or, genius Alaciel's journey through those two islands. A satirical work. Translated from the French
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An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
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An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: c. 1815Reference: 10937i- Pictures
The Revolutionary General Hoche, playing the guillotine as a stringed instrument, ascends into heaven where the atrocities of the French Revolution greet his arrival. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585511i