"Heavily loaded French infantry march past General Foch over shell-pitted ground won from the retreating German army. The elegant vigor and neatness of the figures are barely compromised by a few touches of realism." (Paret, Persuasive Images,…
The poster depicts Claude-Joseph Rouget de l'Isle, a French army officer from the French Revolutionary Wars, leading a column of french World War I soldiers into battle while singing La Marseillaise, the French national anthem.
The poster depicts a French woman chained to a wall, on which there is a poster that reads "Frenches Reich." Below the image there is a description of two German occupied French provinces and their fight against this occupation. The text encourages…