Catherine Orchestrates Coup — Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on 9 July 1762, the day of the coup Photo Credit: By Кестнер (Kaestner) Иоахим X. - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32951794
Catherine Orchestrates Coup
Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on 9 July 1762, the day of the coup
Catherine II the Great — Photo Credit: By Unknown - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61458969
Casanova's Escape — Illustration in Casanova's Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs (Story of my Flight), 1787. From the German edition, 1788. Photo Credit: By Engraver, 1787 - From original edition. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24654459
Casanova's Escape
Illustration in Casanova's Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs (Story of my Flight), 1787. From the German edition, 1788.
Jeanne Marquise d’Urfé — Photo Credit: By Unknown - http://aulivrebleu.pagesperso-orange.fr/Urfe.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21814054
"It's him. Place him in custody!" — Frontispiece illustration of Casanova's History of my Flight from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice. (1787, dated 1788) Photo Credit: By Engraver, 1787 - From original edition, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24696005
"It's him. Place him in custody!"
Frontispiece illustration of Casanova's History of my Flight from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice. (1787, dated 1788)
Casanova — Photo Credit: By Johann Berka - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2337181
Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles — c.1860 from a 1764 plate Photo Credit: By Charles Nicolas Cochin I - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24835105