Le Petit Sou Poster mountains for clouds Denis Gilmore

Denis Gilmore

Nikki Wright

Dentifrice PYOCRINOL - laboratoires de biologie appliquée

a few lit candles are surrounded by bags and gifts

Le Petit Sou Poster mountains for clouds Denis GilmoreVintage French poster for the worker's daily paper Le Petit Sou (The Little Penny). The paper makes its political bent clear: it is a "journal de defense sociale" (newspaper of social defense). The poster illustration is amazingly lyrical, its themes and composition evoking those of Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. Here Marianne, France's female symbol of Liberty, leads the workers up in a rebellion against the powers of the state. She