Emprunt National 6% [National Loan 6%]

This post-war reconstruction poster depicts Marianne, a personification of the French republic, with sheaves of wheat. On one level, the wheat represents the rewards of victory which France has begun to reap. More importantly, however, it symbolises the woman's fucundity. The apron forms a womb-like space in which the wheat, France's child, rests.

patriotism; poster depicts Marianne (symbol of the French Republic) with her apron full of ears of wheat, poster seeks subscribers to the national 6% loan