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title: 'Emprunt de la Libération: on souscrit à la Banque d''Alsace et de Lorraine (Hansi, 1918)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/banque-alsace-lorraine-emprunt-liberation-hansi-1918/
description: 'Colour lithograph poster from a bank inviting subscriptions to the 1918 ''Loan of Liberation'': French soldiers with drums march into Strasbourg between…'
section: Collection
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# Emprunt de la Libération: on souscrit à la Banque d'Alsace et de Lorraine (Hansi, 1918)

Colour lithograph poster from a bank inviting subscriptions to the 1918 'Loan of Liberation': French soldiers with drums march into Strasbourg between tricolour-hung half-timbered houses, children in Alsatian costume beside them, the cathedral behind, while two figures with bundles hurry off at left. A panel quotes a vote of national thanks to the army, the government, Clemenceau and Foch, and a list of the bank's branches runs along the foot, so the public celebration is attached to a place to buy the loan.

- **Date:** 1918
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Banque d'Alsace et de Lorraine (Paris and Strasbourg); design Hansi (J.-J. Waltz), printed by Lapina, Paris
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Corporation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=corporation)
- **Regime:** [Clemenceau Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=clemenceau-government)
- **Leader:** [Georges Clemenceau](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=georges-clemenceau)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise)
- **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional Digital), via Europeana](https://purl.pt/622), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public Domain Mark 1.0 (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, via Europeana); published 1918, designer Hansi died 1951 Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, CT. 704 R. (purl.pt/622), Public Domain Mark 1.0

## Text on the object

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

```
EMPRUNT DE LA LIBÉRATION
ON SOUSCRIT à LA
BANQUE d'ALSACE et de LORRAINE

Article 1er
LES ARMÉES ET LEURS CHEFS
le Gouvernement de la République
le citoyen Georges CLEMENCEAU
Président du Conseil
et Ministre de la Guerre
le Maréchal FOCH
généralissime des armées alliées
ONT BIEN MÉRITÉ DE LA PATRIE

Entrée des Français à Strasbourg
[banner] VIVE LA FRANCE

à PARIS 4bis Place des Victoires . à STRASBOURG Rue de la Nuée bleue
COLMAR . ÉPINAL . METZ . MULHOUSE . NANCY . VITRY-LE-FRANÇOIS
Altkirch. Homécourt-Joeuf. Masevaux. Saint-Dizier.
Clermont en Argonne. Labroque-Schirmeck. Neufchâteau. Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
Commercy. Longwy. Sarrebourg. [illegible]
Verdun.
BÂLE et GENÈVE

Visa N° 13875 [small, left margin]
HANSI
Lapina, Imp. Paris
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
LOAN OF LIBERATION
SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE TAKEN AT THE
BANK OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE

Article 1
THE ARMIES AND THEIR LEADERS
the Government of the Republic
the citizen Georges CLEMENCEAU
President of the Council
and Minister of War
Marshal FOCH
generalissimo of the Allied armies
HAVE WELL DESERVED OF THE FATHERLAND

Entry of the French into Strasbourg
[banner] LONG LIVE FRANCE

in PARIS 4bis Place des Victoires . in STRASBOURG Rue de la Nuée bleue
COLMAR . ÉPINAL . METZ . MULHOUSE . NANCY . VITRY-LE-FRANÇOIS
Altkirch. Homécourt-Joeuf. Masevaux. Saint-Dizier.
Clermont en Argonne. Labroque-Schirmeck. Neufchâteau. Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
Commercy. Longwy. Sarrebourg. [illegible]
Verdun.
BASEL and GENEVA

Visa No. 13875 [small, left margin]
HANSI
Lapina, printer, Paris
```

The list of branch towns is in a flourished hand and a few names (for example 'Labroque-Schirmeck' and the last word of the third row) are hard to read.

[← Armi della morte - armi per la vita! Sottoscrivete al prestito della vittoria (Weapons of death, weapons for life! Subscribe to the Victory Loan)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armi-della-morte-prestito-1918/) [Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/beat-back-the-hun-1918/)

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