--- title: Irrévocablement. Ouverture 15 avril. Marseille. Exposition coloniale (1906) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/marseille-exposition-coloniale-irrevocablement-1906/ description: 'Colour poster for the 1906 Marseille colonial exhibition: a robed West African man, a white-turbaned North African, a smaller Asian face and a…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Irrévocablement. Ouverture 15 avril. Marseille. Exposition coloniale (1906)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/marseille-exposition-coloniale-irrevocablement-1906.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/marseille-exposition-coloniale-irrevocablement-1906.jpg) # Irrévocablement. Ouverture 15 avril. Marseille. Exposition coloniale (1906) Colour poster for the 1906 Marseille colonial exhibition: a robed West African man, a white-turbaned North African, a smaller Asian face and a Khmer-style dancer in gilt costume stand around a notice listing palaces, panoramas, 'exotic reconstructions' and 'native festivals', with tropical fruit and a cockatoo at their feet. The tell: the empire is offered as a list of pavilions, produce and spectacle, with the colonised peoples posed as costumed hosts. - **Date:** 1906 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Exposition nationale coloniale de Marseille, 1906 (organising committee, French Third Republic); artists Joseph de la Nézière and Joseph Pinchon; printed by Imprimerie Marseillaise - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [Sarrien Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=sarrien-government) - **Leader:** [Ferdinand Sarrien](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=ferdinand-sarrien) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [Marseille Colonial Exhibition 1906](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=marseille-colonial-exhibition-1906) - **Techniques:** [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (reproducing Archives nationales d'outre-mer, FR ANOM 0009Fi490)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irr%C3%A9vocablement._Ouverture_15_avril._Marseille._Exposition_coloniale_de_1906.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1906, before 1931; Commons PD, CC Public Domain Mark) Joseph de la Nézière and Joseph Pinchon, Marseille, 1906; Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM 0009Fi490), via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` IRRÉVOCABLEMENT OUVERTURE 15 AVRIL MARSEILLE EXPOSITION COLONIALE 15 AVRIL-NOVEMBRE 1906 GRAND PALAIS DE L'EXPORTATION 50 Palais & Pavillons Officiels des Colonies Françaises SECTION INTERNATIONALE D'OCÉANOGRAPHIE ET PÊCHES MARITIMES CONGRÈS BEAUX-ARTS COLONIAUX Exposition d'Art Provençal PANORAMAS ATTRACTIONS & RECONSTITUTIONS EXOTIQUES Rues de Saïgon & d'Hanoï [?] Marché de Tombouctou Théâtre Indo-Chinois Fermes Algériennes Musique Malgache Souks Tunisiens GRANDES FÊTES INDIGÈNES J. de la Nézière J. Pinchon IMP. MARSEILLAISE MARSEILLE ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` IRREVOCABLY OPENING 15 APRIL MARSEILLE COLONIAL EXHIBITION 15 APRIL-NOVEMBER 1906 GREAT EXPORT PALACE 50 official palaces and pavilions of the French colonies INTERNATIONAL SECTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND SEA FISHERIES COLONIAL FINE ARTS CONGRESS Provencal art exhibition PANORAMAS EXOTIC ATTRACTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS Streets of Saigon and Hanoi Timbuktu market Indo-Chinese theatre Algerian farms Malagasy music Tunisian souks GREAT NATIVE FESTIVALS J. de la Nézière J. Pinchon Marseille Printing House, Marseille ``` The small red list of attractions is soft at 960 px; the first item ('Rues de Saïgon & d'Hanoï') is read with medium confidence. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. [← Deutsche Mütter, schützt Eure Kinder vor der Tuberkulose (German Mothers, Protect Your Children from Tuberculosis)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutsche-mutter-tuberkulose-1906/) ["In the Rubber Coils" (Punch, 1906) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/congo-rubber-coils-punch-1906/) ## Using the same techniques - [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) - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paz-segun-el-peru-el-banquillo-1880/) (Jun 12, 1880 · Card stacking) - [Remember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans! (Judge)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-the-maine-starving-cubans-judge-1898/) (May 7, 1898 · Card stacking) - ["A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition" (commercial stereograph, 1899)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sacrifice-to-aguinaldos-ambition-1899/) (1899 · Card stacking, Name-calling). Content note: Photograph of two dead Filipino soldiers. - ["England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-and-capitalism-der-wahre-jacob-1899/) (Dec 5, 1899 · Card stacking, Scapegoating) - ["Kill Every One Over Ten" (New York Evening Journal, 1902)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kill-every-one-over-ten-1902/) (May 5, 1902 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Blindfolded Filipino children before a firing squad.