Battle of Lepanto, when the Holy League defeated the Ottomans, or Battle of Malaga, fresco, 1896-1901, by Paul Gervais, 1859-1944, in the Hotel Pams, a mansion or hotel particulier, built 1852-72 by Pierre Bardou, founder of the Job cigarette paper company, and reworked in the 1890s by his son-in-law Jules Pams with the architect Leopold Carlier, on the Rue Emile-Zola in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. These historical paintings represent the theme of civilisation over barbarism. The house is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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