Comptoir nationale d'escompte de Paris. Emprunt nationale 1918. Pour hâter la Victoire, pour nous revoir bientôt, Souscrivez! [National Discount Bank of Paris. 1918 National Loan. To Hasten Victory and to be Reunited with us soon - Subscribe!

Colour poster of two women smiling. The woman on the left is wearing a large black Alsatian headdress ("coiffe alsacienne"). She is raising one arm in the air as if to salute and has her other arm around the shoulder of the other woman. The woman on the right is holding flowers. She wears a white bonnet and a shawl, typical of the region of Lorraine. Both women wear blue-white-and-red rosettes on their headwear. A bird flies at the lower left side of the picture. (Alsace-Lorraine was a part of France ceded to the German Empire in 1871. It was reverted to France at the end of the First World War.)
The Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), formerly the Comptoir d'escompte de Paris (CEP) was one of four banks that combined to form BNP Paribas. The CNEP was founded in response to the financial shock caused by the revolution of February 1848 by the Provisional Government of the French Second Republic.