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title: This Is France, One of the United Nations
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-this-is-france-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/
description: A national-profile sheet headed 'this is FRANCE' with the Arc de Triomphe, photographs of the people and the country.
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[![This Is France, One of the United Nations, 1939 France poster: A national-profile sheet headed 'this is FRANCE' with the Arc](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/france-this-is-france-one-of-the-united-nations-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/france-this-is-france-one-of-the-united-nations-1939.jpg)

# This Is France, One of the United Nations

A national-profile sheet headed 'this is FRANCE' with the Arc de Triomphe, photographs of the people and the country, an industry and agriculture statistics panel and two essays on France's role in history. The tell for glittering-generalities is the virtue language ('the great monastic orders', 'the democratic ideal'), and for card-stacking the selection of achievements and 'largest producer' statistics without any unfavourable fact.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
this is
FRANCE

The only European country with a seacoast bordering on the North Sea, the Channel, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, France is at the crossroad of the Western World [...] It was France which, in the present war, was the last Continental bastion of the democracies in Europe and the main western battlefield for the annihilation of Germany.

France's unique contributions to civilization are on a par with its unusual historical role. [...] de Lesseps built the Suez Canal and started the Panama Canal and Eiffel developed the skyscraper technique.

ARC DE TRIOMPHE
the people
BEHIND THE SCENES IN A PARIS FASHION HOUSE
THE FUTURE OF FRANCE
A WOMAN OF BRITTANY
ALSATIAN FARMER
WINE MAKING IN BURGUNDY
WORLD FAMOUS PASTEUR INSTITUTE, PARIS
their work
POPULATION 42,000,000 [statistics not reproduced]
France was the largest peace time producer of bauxite [...]
the country
IRON AND STEEL PLANT IN LORRAINE
FISHERMEN IN THE HARBOR OF CANNES
A SMALL TOWN IN FRANCE, L'AIGLE, NORMANDY
HARVEST TIME IN THE FRENCH ALPS

f. c. veit and s. m. adler
Lithographed in the United States of America
ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Issued by French Press and Information Service
An Agency of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
```

[← Honneur et Patrie](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fr-honneur-et-patrie-free-french-1940s/) [This Is France Overseas, One of the United Nations →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-this-is-france-overseas-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/)

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