Striking French propaganda map, a very rare reduced version of Maurice Neumont’s poster showing Germany as a monstrous octopus threatening Europe with tentacles extending not only west to France, England, Spain and Italy, but to the Balkans and Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, Romania and Russia. Germany is shown in different shadings of red, indicating its numerous annexations of surrounding territory since 1740, the most recent being the 1871 seizure of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War making a comparison between the territorial conquest made in France since the outbreak of First World War.
The map was drawn by Parisian artist Maurice Neumont (1868-1930) for “La Conference au Village contre la Propagande ennemie en France” The Conference was established in 1917 for the purpose of advancing the patriotic cause in rural and provincial France by distributing more effective propaganda and countering similar German efforts. Published in Paris in 1917-18 at P.J Gallais.
En 1788 Mirabeau disait deja: “La Guerre est l’Industrie Nationale de la Prusse”
Striking French propaganda map, a very rare reduced version of Maurice Neumont’s poster showing Germany as a monstrous octopus threatening Europe with tentacles extending not only west to France, England, Spain and Italy, but to the Balkans and Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, Romania and Russia. Germany is shown in different shadings of red, indicating its numerous annexations of surrounding territory since 1740, the most recent being the 1871 seizure of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War making a comparison between the territorial conquest made in France since the outbreak of First World War.
The map was drawn by Parisian artist Maurice Neumont (1868-1930) for “La Conference au Village contre la Propagande ennemie en France” The Conference was established in 1917 for the purpose of advancing the patriotic cause in rural and provincial France by distributing more effective propaganda and countering similar German efforts. Published in Paris in 1917-18 at P.J Gallais.
- Dimension: 24 x 30 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1917
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L’Europe Divisee en touttes ses Regiones et Grand Estats… Par J.B. Nolin corrigee l’an 3 par Longchamps
More Info € 500,00The rare map of Europe prepared by J. Nolin and re-issued by Basset corrected and improved during “l’An 3 de la Republique Francaise” by Longchamps. It comes with two columns on the left and right side describing the different regions and empires.
- Year: 1795
- Dimension: 470 x 650 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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[Prussian Octopus] En 1788 Mirabeau disait deja: La Guerre est l’industrie Nationale de la Prusse
More Info € 900,00Striking French propaganda poster map showing Germany as a monstrous octopus threatening Europe with tentacles extending not only west to France, England, Spain and Italy, but to the Balkans and Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, Romania and Russia. Germany is shown in different shadings of red, indicating its numerous annexations of surrounding territory since 1740, the most recent being the 1871 seizure of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War making a comparison between the territorial conquest…
- Dimension: 60 x 78 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1917
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Iconic satirical map of Europe by Paul Hadol published in Paris at Vallee, 1870.
- Dimension: 33 x 42 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1870
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A most decorative map of Prussia. It replaced the older map (v.d.Broecke, map 156) in the editions from 1595 on. It is based on the large woodcut map of Prussia by Caspar Henneberg of 1576. Van den Broecke: 157
- Year: 1603
- Dimension: 367 x 468 mm
- Place of publication: Antwerp
