The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This post-war reconstruction poster depicts Marianne, a personification of the French republic, with sheaves of wheat. On one level, the wheat represents the rewards of victory which France has begun to reap. More importantly, however, it symbolises the woman's fucundity. The apron forms a womb-like space in which the wheat, France's child, rests.
patriotism; poster depicts Marianne (symbol of the French Republic) with her apron full of ears of wheat, poster seeks subscribers to the national 6% loan
battlefield, tree planting ceremony; poster depicting a young woman with a rosette in her hair, most probably intended to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, planting a tree over a grave o
civilian, foodstuffs; poster depicting a fisherman with basket of fish on a wharf, with fishing boats and buildings of town ( sur Mer) in background, poster seeks subscribers to the national 6% loan
First World War French poster depicts French troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe, joined by the ghosts of previous French armies with a winged marianne calling troops to war.
In 1920 the French Government issued loans to finance reconstruction following the First World War. Designed by the artist Paul David, a well known painter of interiors, this sumptuous poster is one o
This poster is a dynamic construction of old rural France in the distance and a woman dressed in Art Deco clothing in the foreground as she raises her arms towards the sun calling for 'Renaitre' or re
Poster depicts a wreath made of fruit, vegetable and wheat, subsistance foods which were in short supply during the latter part of the First World War, with information on the national loan. The poste