This poster (depicting a Chasseur Alpin) was commissioned and distributed by a bank in Marseilles on the occasion of the loans at the end of the Great War.
The
injunction in Occitan "Marsihes, fai toun devé!" (Marseillais, do
your homework!) is part
of a set of motives exalting local patriotism. Occitan is used here among a set
of references to local identity, in a classical dialectic of the time that
extolled the "natural" love of the little homeland as a condition of
love for the "Great" Motherland.
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