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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 737568, member: 17469&quot;]<a href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/walhain.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/walhain.php" rel="nofollow"><font size="3">Marianne de Walhain</font></a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/article/walhain/marianne.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Marianne has been the symbol of France since the French Revolution&nbsp; of 1789-99. She represents the Republic of strong proud people. During peaceful&nbsp; times, she is shown as a peasant woman with Phrygian cap, and during wartime she&nbsp; is a more aggressive woman in battle dress. Many artists have created their&nbsp; renditions of Marianne, and she remains a part of France&#039;s culture as well as&nbsp; her art.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Charles&nbsp; Walhain produced a vignette of such a woman, first used on French banknotes&nbsp; during the first world war. It is not called a &quot;Marianne&quot; in the literature, but&nbsp; I propose that she is clearly a Marianne, and should be recognized as such.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/walhain.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/walhain.php" rel="nofollow">Read the rest of the article....</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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