--- title: Centenaire de l'Algérie, 1830-1930 (poster by Léon Cauvy) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/centenaire-algerie-cauvy-1929/ description: 'Colour poster for the 1930 centenary of French Algeria: a tricolour bearing an ''R F'' monogram flies over Algiers harbour, where Algerian dockers and…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Centenaire de l'Algérie, 1830-1930 (poster by Léon Cauvy)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/centenaire-algerie-cauvy-1929.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/centenaire-algerie-cauvy-1929.jpg) # Centenaire de l'Algérie, 1830-1930 (poster by Léon Cauvy) Colour poster for the 1930 centenary of French Algeria: a tricolour bearing an 'R F' monogram flies over Algiers harbour, where Algerian dockers and fruit-sellers work in the foreground. The flag and Republic monogram set the French state's authority over the harbour scene and the '1830 / 1930' dates. - **Date:** 1929 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Commissariat général du Centenaire de l'Algérie, Algiers (French colonial administration); artist Léon Cauvy; printed by Baconnier, Algiers - **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa) - **Country:** [French Algeria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=french-algeria) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Government General of Algeria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=government-general-of-algeria) - **Leader:** [Pierre Bordes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=pierre-bordes) - **Audience:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=mixed) - **Purpose:** [Commemorate](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=commemorate) - **Theme:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism) - **Event:** [Centenary of French Algeria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=centenary-of-french-algeria) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (reproducing BnF Gallica ark:/12148/btv1b9016630n)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Affiche_Centenaire_de_l%27Alg%C3%A9rie,_1930.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1929; BnF Gallica record states 'Domaine public') Léon Cauvy, 'Centenaire de l'Algérie', Algiers, 1929. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1830 [R F monogram] 1930 L. CAUVY CENTENAIRE DE L'ALGÉRIE DU 1ER JANVIER AU 30 JUIN Commissariat Général [small print, bottom left, partly cut off] IMP BACONNIER ALGER [small print, bottom right] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 1830 [R F monogram, for République Française] 1930 L. CAUVY CENTENARY OF ALGERIA FROM 1 JANUARY TO 30 JUNE General Commissariat [small print, bottom left, partly cut off] Printed by Baconnier, Algiers [small print, bottom right] ``` The monogram is the 'R F' of the French Republic; reading of the small print at the foot is partial. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. [← Locarno? Wählt deutschnational! (Locarno? Vote German National!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dnvp-locarno-waehlt-deutschnational-1928/) [Bande Mataram (Lahore), commemorative page for Lala Lajpat Rai, 16 November 1929 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bande-mataram-lahore-lajpat-rai-1929/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)