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Signed in the plate original lithographic poster, c1918
French promotional poster for the First World War.
Printed by Devambez. Imp. Paris.
The ghost army is a common feature of wartime mythology, the trope of the ghost army in French posters represented the victorious spirit of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic past and its ongoing influence on the present.
In the poster "For triumph...", Francois Rude's sculpture, the Marsellaise, comes alive on the Arc de Triomphe to lead the Grande Armee of the Napoleonic era and inspire French soldiers to victory.
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Signed in the plate original lithographic poster, c1918
French promotional poster for the First World War.
Printed by Devambez. Imp. Paris.
The ghost army is a common feature of wartime mythology, the trope of the ghost army in French posters represented the victorious spirit of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic past and its ongoing influence on the present.
In the poster "For triumph...", Francois Rude's sculpture, the Marsellaise, comes alive on the Arc de Triomphe to lead the Grande Armee of the Napoleonic era and inspire French soldiers to victory.
