Le Petit Sou Poster Style:France, c. 1900 Title - Soapdish Director -

Title - Soapdish Director - Michael Hoffman

Richard Pasco

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John Seaton

Marian 1974

Le Petit Sou Poster Style:France, c. 1900 Title - Soapdish Director -Vintage French poster for the worker's daily paper Le Petit Sou (The Little Penny). The paper makes its political bent clear: it is a "journal de defense sociale" (newspaper of social defense). The poster illustration is amazingly lyrical, its themes and composition evoking those of Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. Here Marianne, France's female symbol of Liberty, leads the workers up in a rebellion against the powers of the state. She