Marianne de Walhain Marianne has been the symbol of France since the French Revolution of 1789-99. She represents the Republic of strong proud people. During peaceful times, she is shown as a peasant woman with Phrygian cap, and during wartime she is a more aggressive woman in battle dress. Many artists have created their renditions of Marianne, and she remains a part of France's culture as well as her art. Charles Walhain produced a vignette of such a woman, first used on French banknotes during the first world war. It is not called a "Marianne" in the literature, but I propose that she is clearly a Marianne, and should be recognized as such. Read the rest of the article....
Dave, Your web presentation was very informative & an impressive web site created by you.The colorful notes from France & it's former colonies were beautiful. congrats on you web presention.
My site is having a bit of trouble.... please stand by ...hopefully it works now. Please let me know if the links to the site are failing. Dave
Your site is working fine now. Very impressive presentation. The information is beautifully presented. Thank you.
Dave.... Outsatnding presentation on Marianne...the vignettes were wonderful as well as the information. The more recent link you provided me works fine, thank you! I really enjoyed reading your submission. :thumb::thumb: Regards, RickieB
Marianne is one of my personal fave vignettes from France. I love how when France fell, this vignette ceased being used on the 5FF note very very quickly - though a huge run of notes was printed just near the end of 1939 so that a lot of them got into circulation. Marianne and Liberte were replace by fasces and empty promises for the Vichy regime.
I wish I could change the original post, the link to this article is now at http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/articles/walhain.php Dave
DaveM... This was an excellent presentation!! I hope many of you revisit these threads to see what we are all about!! RickieB
