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.
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- French war poster (printer unnamed)
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Clemenceau Government
- Leader
- Georges Clemenceau
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- 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
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1918, before 1931; Library of Congress World War I Posters, item 99613686)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA (item https://www.loc.gov/item/99613686/)
Text on the object
[on the regimental colour, partly legible] 57 ... HONNEUR ... ET PAT[RIE] ... [illegible] ... AUST[ERLITZ?] ... SEBASTOP[OL] ... [illegible]
[on the regimental colour, partly legible] 57 ... Honour ... and Fatherland ... [illegible] ... Austerlitz(?) ... Sevastopol ... [illegible]
