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title: Vive la France! (F. A. Crepaux)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-vive-la-france-1918/
description: A young woman in a poilu's horizon-blue coat and red trousers stands on a trench parapet before barbed wire, waving a cap and a regimental colour…
section: Collection
---

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[![Vive la France! (F. A. Crepaux)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/france-vive-la-france-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/france-vive-la-france-1918.jpg)

# Vive la France! (F. A. Crepaux)

A young woman in a poilu's horizon-blue coat and red trousers stands on a trench parapet before barbed wire, waving a cap and a regimental colour embroidered with battle honours. The tell is the borrowed flag: honours such as Sébastopol and the words 'Honneur' and 'Patrie' attach the war effort to the regiment's past, with no argument beyond the cheer.

## Text on the object

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

```
[on the regimental colour, partly legible] 57 ... HONNEUR ... ET PAT[RIE] ... [illegible] ... AUST[ERLITZ?] ... SEBASTOP[OL] ... [illegible]
```

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

```
[on the regimental colour, partly legible] 57 ... Honour ... and Fatherland ... [illegible] ... Austerlitz(?) ... Sevastopol ... [illegible]
```

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