The States General at Orleans, France Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Arched print

Arched print

Cars are lined up on the starting grid in wet conditions

on the Paris-Rouen run

the boy servant Robert has ready the most plausible of explanations for being caught with the glass in his hand

Moral verses are contained in the lower margin

The States General at Orleans, France Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Arched printThe States General at Orleans, France, 1560, (1893). The first meeting of the French legislative assembly for 76 years. From an engraving of 1570 by Jacques Tortorel. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.