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Description: | Concept: flag / banner / standard, architecture, emblems, royalty, peace / victory celebrations, military personnel, civilian personnel, commemorative, death, agriculture / food, industry, science / technology, inter-war Description: whole: the image occupies the edges, acting as a border to the title and text. The title is positioned in the upper quarter, in black. The text is positioned in the lower three-quarters, also in black. All set against a white background. image: two classical columns support an arch decorated with red and yellow patterns. Ribbons in the colours of the Belgian flag, and flowers, wind around the columns and arch. A shield featuring a rampant lion, and a crown, are positioned in the top right and top left corners. A lyre is positioned at the top of the arch. text: Aux Habitants de la Province de Liège P.A. DÉPOSÉ No. 1625 Eloigné de mes fonctions, par la volonté du Roi et par la loi depuis l'invasion étrangère, j'ai l'honneur, en reprenant ma charge, de saluer avec vous la Belgique indomptable et libre! Honneur à notre grand Roi, immortel devant l'histoire, à notre Reine bien-aimée, généreuse dispensatrice de bonté et de consolations! Honneur à notre admirable armée, Prince, chefs et soldats, de Liège, de l'Yser et des Flandres; aux glorieux tombés dont nous entretiendrons pieusement le souvenir; à ceux qui nous reviennent auréolés de triomphe et d'héroïsme! Honneur à Vous, Habitants de la province, qui sous l'étreinte ennemie avec opposé une résistance digne et calme à de longues et cruelles épreuves. Aujourd'hui que la Belgique a reconquis la maîtrise de ses destinées, je convie tous les bons citoyens à concourir dans une commune pensée de patriotisme, au maintien de l'ordre, à panser les plaies de la patrie profondément meurtrie et à l'accomplissement d'une restauration qui émerveillera le monde par sa rapidité et son ampleur. La Province de Liège, fière à juste titre de son culte pour les arts, les sciences et les institutions sociales, de son industrie, de son commerce et de son agriculture, se doit de briguer la première place dans le renouveau de la splendeur nationale! J'y appelle tous les curs et toutes les énergies! Liège, le 22 Novembre 1918. Le Gouverneur de la province de Liège, Harry Delvaux de Fenffe. Gouv. Ind. no 618. P.A. DÉPOSÉ No. 1625 Imprimerie THONE, Liège. [To the inhabitants of the province of Liège. Poster permit no. 1625. Having been removed from my duties since the foreign invasion at the wish of the King and by law, on resuming my office I have the honour to join you in saluting indomitable, free Belgium! Honour to our great King, immortal in the eyes of history, to our beloved Queen, the generous dispenser of kindness and consolation! Honour to our admirable army, Prince, leaders and soldiers, from Liège, Yser and Flanders; to the glorious dead whose memory we will piously preserve; to those who return to us, wreathed in triumph and heroism! Honour to you, inhabitants of the province, who under the enemy's grip responded with dignified, calm resistance to long-lasting, cruel trials. Now that Belgium has regained control of its destiny, I exhort all good citizens to work together with a shared sense of patriotism to maintain order, dress the wounds of their deeply afflicted native land and achieve a restoration which will cause the world to marvel by its speed and scope. It is up to the Province of Liège, rightly proud of its cult of the arts, science and social institutions, of its industry, trade and agriculture, to do all it can to be at the forefront in the renewal of national splendour! I call on the hearts and energies of all to achieve this! Liège, 22 November 1918. The Governor of the Province of Liège, Harry Delvaux de Fenffe. Gouv. Ind. no 618. Poster permit no. 1625. Thone Printers, Liège.] Object: column, arch, flower, shield, crown, ribbon | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Imprimerie Thone, Liège Publisher/Sponsor: Gouvernement de la Province de Liège Associated Person: Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium Associated Person: Albert I, King of Belgium | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3276... | Go to resource |
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