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whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned across the top, in black. The text is
integrated and positioned upper left, in red, and lower left, in black. All set against a white background.
image: a full-length depiction of a woman wearing Revolutionary style clothing, including a red skirt, blue jacket and black military hat
decorated with a red plume and Republican Rosette. She plays a military side drum which is decorated with the symbol of a fasces topped by
a red Phrygian cap.
text: 1917
Semaine de la Charente Infre
Vive la Nation!
A. Willette 1917
Imp. DEVAMBEZ, PARIS
[1917. Lower Charente Week. Long live the Nation! Devambez Printers, Paris.]
A rather different representation of 'Marianne' to the classical image traditionally used. Here, the personification
of French liberty is combined with the 'drummer boy', one of the symbols of revolution and victory to emerge from the Revolution of 1789.
The drum bear arms dating from 1789 - the bundle of 'fasces' topped by a liberty bonnet and supported by Tricolore flags - a later
development of the cockade she wears. Charente Inferieure was the old name for the French department in which La Rochelle is
situated.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | emblems women / womens work historical reference Costume and fashion WW1 French Home Front FR.O Charities Uniforms | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Devambez Imprimerie, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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