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Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Lithograph by A. Jacob.

Saint Vincent de Paul: he rescues a baby abandoned in the snow. Line engraving by P. Baquoy after N. A. Monsiaux.

Christ raises Jairus' daughter. Etching by Dupréel after N.A. Monsiaux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by L.M. Halbou after  N.A. Monsiau.

A crowd of sick people congregates around Christ. Etching by J-L. Delignon after N.A. Monsiaux.

King Louis XVI, seated, is giving instructions to La Perouse before his departure in 1785 to explore the Pacific Ocean. Engraving by C. Gavard after Sandoz (?) after F. Pigeot after N.A. Monsiaux, 18--.

A lion that has escaped from a circus in Florence picks up a baby in its teeth, but when the baby's mother shouts at it, the lion gives the baby back to the mother unharmed. Watercolour by M. Díez de Bulnes, 1817, after N.A. Monsiau.

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