“This was Marianne, the revolutionary heroine, the French equivalent of Uncle Sam. This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman.”

— Stephen Clarke, book A Year in the Merde

On Marianne, the symbol of France:
A Year in the Merde (2005)

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