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title: Armistice Day - The Free French and Their Friends Will Commemorate the Only Armistice They Recognize (New York, 11 November 1941)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armistice-day-free-french-france-forever-1941/
description: A French soldier of 1918 in a Adrian helmet blows a bugle before the Arc de Triomphe and a Cross of Lorraine emblem, under 'Liberté Egalité Fraternité'.
section: Collection
---

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# Armistice Day - The Free French and Their Friends Will Commemorate the Only Armistice They Recognize (New York, 11 November 1941)

A French soldier of 1918 in a Adrian helmet blows a bugle before the Arc de Triomphe and a Cross of Lorraine emblem, under 'Liberté Egalité Fraternité'; text announces a rally at Manhattan Center on 11 November 1941. The tell is the transfer of the 1919 victory parade, Clemenceau, Foch and Pershing onto the Free French cause, and the line 'the only armistice they recognize', which rejects the 1940 armistice by implication.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LIBERTÉ EGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ
ARMISTICE DAY
THE FREE FRENCH
AND THEIR FRIENDS
WILL COMMEMORATE
THE ONLY
ARMISTICE
THEY RECOGNIZE
ON NOVEMBER 11, 1941.
8.30 P.M.
MANHATTAN CENTER
311 WEST 34TH ST. N.Y.C.
THE BUGLER OF THE ARMISTICE
"THE VICTORY PARADE"
(PARIS - 1919)
CLEMENCEAU - FOCH - PERSHING
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
PRAYER FOR FRANCE
THE "ARC DE TRIOMPHE" SALUTE TO THE FLAGS
RESERVED SEATS ON SALE AT
FRANCE FOREVER
50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA. SUITE 840 [hand-corrected from 701]
[signature:] Henri Laussucq
```

[← Antonescu medal, 'Mareșal al României și Conducătorul Statului' (G. Stănescu, 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/antonescu-conducatorul-statului-medal-1941/) [Mes Chers Concitoyens... / Waarde Medeburgers, (Ville de Bruxelles / Stad Brussel notice, 30 June 1941) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/belgium-mes-chers-concitoyens-brussels-mayor-1941/)

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