Jean Bouin, French soldier and athlete Size:M: 75 x 50cm in some quarters

in some quarters

The cincture around the hips of the middle figure is the forerunner of the jewelled belt of the latter part of the reign

View of houses in Drury Lane

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in favour of his brother Michael

Jean Bouin, French soldier and athlete Size:M: 75 x 50cm in some quartersJean Bouin, French soldier and athlete, 1912. Bouin (1888 1914) competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the 1912 Games in Stockholm, where he won a silver medal in the 5000 metres. A sergeant in the French Army in World War I, he was killed near Saint Michel, Marne. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855 1915, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1855 1915.