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title: France propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/country/france/
description: Browse all 42 items from France in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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# France propaganda in the collection

42 objects, listed by date.

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- [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial)
- [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written.
- [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (France · 1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- [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/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [Assignat of fifteen sols, law of 4 January 1792](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/assignat-quinze-sols-1792/) (France · Jan 4, 1792 · Glittering generalities)
- [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms.
- [Bonaparte, Premier Consul de la Republique Francaise: Revue du Quintidi (Boilly, Levachez, Duplessis-Bertaux)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bonaparte-premier-consul-revue-du-quintidi-1802/) (France · Aug 17, 1802 · Transfer)
- [L'Homme a la boule (Draner), French caricature of a Prussian leader on a globe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lhomme-a-la-boule-draner-1870/) (France · 1870 · Name-calling)
- [Le Traître: Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-traitre-petit-journal-dreyfus-1895/) (France · Jan 13, 1895 · Name-calling)
- [L'Aurore, no. 87, front page (Paris, 13 January 1898): "J'Accuse...! Lettre au Président de la République" (J'Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jaccuse-laurore-front-page-1898/) (France · Jan 13, 1898 · Testimonial). Content note: Newspaper page about a wrongful-conviction controversy; the letter text refers to a prisoner held in torture-like conditions on Devil's Island; no graphic imagery.
- [Le Sifflet, cover (Paris, 14 July 1898): "Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac" (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-sifflet-verite-esterhazy-1898/) (France · Jul 14, 1898 · Transfer). Content note: Cartoon with a nude allegorical female figure (Truth); no graphic violence.
- [Les Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/les-anglais-au-siam-egypte-soudan-malbet-1898/) (France · Nov 19, 1898 · Name-calling)
- [Psst...!, page (Paris, 31 December 1898): "Au parc Monceau" (In the Parc Monceau)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/psst-au-parc-monceau-reinach-1898/) (France · Dec 31, 1898 · Name-calling). Content note: Antisemitic caricature of the Dreyfusard deputy Joseph Reinach with exaggerated features and ape-like proportions, from the anti-Dreyfusard weekly Psst...!; shown as printed.
- [Del-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre (Musée des Horreurs no. 21)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/del-lachoda-musee-des-horreurs-fashoda-1900/) (France · 1900 · Name-calling)
- ["Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-cecil-rhodes-leandre-1900/) (France · Feb 17, 1900 · Name-calling)
- [La fin de la guerre anglo-boer ou Donnant donnant (Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fin-de-la-guerre-anglo-boer-le-grelot-1902/) (France · Jun 1902 · Name-calling)
- [Fidèles compagnons du buveur : Misère & Mort (The Drinker's Faithful Companions: Misery and Death)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/misere-et-mort-anti-alcohol-1905/) (France · 1905 · Fear appeal)
- [Irrévocablement. Ouverture 15 avril. Marseille. Exposition coloniale (1906)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/marseille-exposition-coloniale-irrevocablement-1906/) (France · 1906 · Card stacking)
- [Bande Mataram (Paris), memorial page to Madan Lal Dhingra, 17 August 1909](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bande-mataram-paris-dhingra-memorial-1909/) (France · Aug 17, 1909 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [6e régiment d'infanterie battle-honour label (Éditions Delandre, about 1914-1917)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sixth-regiment-campaign-cinderella/) (France · 1914 · Transfer)
- [Aux Femmes Françaises (To French Women) — government appeal, 6 August 1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aux-femmes-francaises-viviani-1914/) (France · Aug 6, 1914 · Glittering generalities, Card stacking)
- [Banania "y'a bon" (advertising poster, Paris, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/banania-y-a-bon-poster-1915/) (France · 1915 · Transfer). Content note: Racialised caricature of a Black colonial soldier, with the pidgin slogan 'y'a bon'.
- [La France / L'Allemagne: même dans le timbre-poste (France / Germany: even in the postage stamp)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-france-l-allemagne-timbre-poste-1915/) (France · 1915 · Testimonial, Name-calling)
- [Le Canard enchaîné, no. 1, front page (Paris, 10 September 1915): "Pour faire un Journal en 1915"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canard-enchaine-no1-1915/) (France · Sep 10, 1915 · Name-calling). Content note: Wartime French satirical front page that uses the slur 'Boches' for German journalists and lampoons censorship and the dailies' war reporting.
- [On les aura! 2e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Souscrivez (We'll get them! Second National Defence Loan. Subscribe)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-les-aura-1916/) (France · 1916 · Transfer)
- [La Journée Serbe, 25 juin 1916 (Charles Fouqueray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-journee-serbe-kossovo-1916/) (France · Jun 25, 1916 · Transfer)
- [La puissance militaire de la France (Section cinématographique de l'armée)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-puissance-militaire-1917/) (France · 1917 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Journée de l'armée d'Afrique et des troupes coloniales (Day of the Army of Africa and the Colonial Troops), Fouqueray](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/journee-armee-afrique-troupes-coloniales-fouqueray-1917/) (France · 1917 · Transfer)
- ['Friends for ever' Franco-American postcard (France, January 1917)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/friends-for-ever-postcard-1917/) (France · Jan 1917 · Transfer)
- [Emprunt de la Libération: on souscrit à la Banque d'Alsace et de Lorraine (Hansi, 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/banque-alsace-lorraine-emprunt-liberation-hansi-1918/) (France · 1918 · Transfer)
- [Vive la France! (F. A. Crepaux)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-vive-la-france-1918/) (France · 1918 · Transfer)
- [Italiens, souscrivez au 4ème Emprunt de la Défense Nationale (Banca Italiana di Sconto, Paris)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/italiens-souscrivez-banca-italiana-di-sconto-1918/) (France · 1918 · Transfer)
- [La paix de l'ennemi (Peace on the Enemy's Terms)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paix-de-lennemi-prouve-1918/) (France · 1918 · Fear appeal, Card stacking)
- [Le Rire rouge, no. 207, cover (Paris, 2 November 1918): "Grand Bazar de la Paix - Wilhelm Directeur"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/le-rire-rouge-grand-bazar-de-la-paix-1918/) (France · Nov 2, 1918 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: WWI French satirical caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a shopkeeper selling hostages and colonies.
- [Exposition coloniale, Marseille 1922 (Colonial Exhibition, Marseille 1922), poster by Leonetto Cappiello](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exposition-coloniale-marseille-cappiello-1922/) (France · 1922 · Transfer)
- ["Sous le soleil équatorial" (Le Petit Journal illustré, 6 July 1924)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/petit-journal-congo-ocean-railway-1924/) (France · Jul 6, 1924 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities)
- ["Femmes ! ... exigez la paix immédiate au Maroc" (PCF sticker, Rif war, 1925)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pcf-papillon-femmes-paix-immediate-maroc-1925/) (France · 1925 · Fear appeal)
- ["La guerre du Maroc, suite": Painlevé orders forged Zinoviev letters (L'Humanité, 21 June 1925)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/painleve-forger-zinoviev-abd-el-krim-humanite-1925/) (France · Jun 21, 1925 · Name-calling)
- [Cachin, jeté en prison ... contre la guerre criminelle du Maroc (Cachin, Thrown into Prison ... for Opposing the Criminal War in Morocco)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cachin-jete-en-prison-guerre-du-maroc-1927/) (France · 1927 · Name-calling)
- [This Is France, One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-this-is-france-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) (France · 1939 · Glittering generalities, Card stacking)
- [This Is France Overseas, One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-this-is-france-overseas-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) (France · 1939 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak)
