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
- 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
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Clemenceau Government
- Leader
- Georges Clemenceau
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional Digital), via Europeana, 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
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
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.
