The Gaulish leaders in league against Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), led by Vercingetorix (d. 46 BC), from a protective sleeve for school books, late nineteenth century.
Lutetia or the second plan of Paris in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, French School, 1722.
Sainte Geneviève gardant ses moutons, French School, sixteenth century.
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris.
Epitaph of François Villon (1431–?) from Le Grant Testament Villon et le petit, son codicille. Le jargon et ses balades, 1489.
‘Weighing of Souls’, French fifteenth-century stone carving.
Engraving of the danse macabre, artist unknown, 1493.
Portrait of Catherine de Médicis (1519–89), French School, sixteenth century.
Engraving of ‘La Cour des Miracles’.
Engraving of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Paris, 1572, by de Soligny.
Garden and Cirque at the Palais-Royal, Paris, by Hoffbauer, 1794
Engraving of the cemetery of the Saints-Innocents by Hoffbauer, nineteenth century.
Scène grivoise by François Boucher (1703–70).
‘The Sans-Culotte’, French School, nineteenth century.
‘A Meeting of Artists, Mudscrapers and Rag Merchants’, caricature of a popular café at the Palais-Royal in Paris, French School, c. 1800.
‘Gargantua’, caricature of Louis-Philippe I by Honoré Daumier, 1831.
Aerial view of Paris, c. 1871, showing public buildings, many of which were destroyed during the Paris Commune.
‘The Occupation of Paris, 1814 – English Visitors in the Palais-Royal’, English School, nineteenth century.
The bombardment of Paris, German School, c. 1870.
The siege of Paris, bombardment by the Prussians, 1870–71, French School, nineteenth century.
The construction of the avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, 1st and 2nd arrondissements, 1878.
Unidentified dead insurgents of the Paris Commune, 1871.
The construction of the avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, 1st and 2nd arrondissements, 1878.
Illustration by Jacques Tardi from Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932.
André Breton, c. 1930.
‘Une maison close monacale, rue Monsieur-le-Prince (couple s’embrassant)’, silver print by Halász Gyula Brassaï, c. 1931.
Scene from the film Hôtel du Nord, directed by Marcel Carné, with Arletty and Louis Jouvet, 1938.
Liberation fighters in Paris, 1944.
French women punished for collaborating, 1944.
A policeman throws tear gas to disperse crowds during student riots in Paris, 17 June 1968.
Paris suburbs, 28 October 2005.