PUZZLE. - History of France. Paris, Matenet, s.d. [c. 1871]. - Lot 69

PUZZLE. - History of France. Paris, Matenet, s.d. [c. 1871]. Cardboard box (36.5 x 45 x 3 cm), colored lithograph on front cover (Henri IV at the siege of Paris), gilded and embossed frame; 3 lithographed and colored plates by Jannin, on wood cut into puzzle pieces (56, 54 and 55 pieces). Puzzles on the history of France in 90 portraits (30 per puzzle), from Pharamond to Napoleon III, including the chevalier Bayard, Sully, Richelieu, sculptor Jean Goujon, Jean Bart, Duguay-Trouin, Colbert, Voltaire, Buffon and Dumont d'Urville. The portraits are interspersed with historical scenes (12 per plate): Clovis at the Battle of Tolbiac, Charles Martel at Poitiers, Joan of Arc, François I as a prisoner at Pavia, the assassination of Henri IV, the storming of the Bastille, the discovery of America, Dumont d'Urville being received by a New Zealand chief, etc. Square no. 75, with a figure evoking the Third Republic and the date 1871, dates the game.