Allegory of Republican France, by E Courtaux, 1871. Cartoon from a series titled La Grande Crucifiee!!! depicting Marianne as Republican France. Here she holds up a map portraying France as a 'Mer de Sang' (sea of blood), as a result of the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. From a private collection.

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