It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy ...

Within the logo are three symbols: the gold medal, the Olympic flame and Marianne, the embodiment of the French Republic, born out of the 1789 French Revolution. “Marianne is the personification ...

A tale from the French Revolution in which four bold, bodacious women try not to lose their heads, takes the stage in ...

Digan’s Marianne is wearing a Phrygian cap, or liberty cap, a reference to the French Revolution. In his speech, Macron referred not to the cap but to Marianne’s free-flowing hair, which may ...

also known in France as Marianne, partly naked and holding the flag of the French Revolution as she leads people over the bodies of the fallen. “Marianne has a naked breast because she is ...

One historian said his use of Marianne as a feminist symbol was "moronic". Mathilde Larrere, an expert on the French Revolution, said Marianne was an allegory and the use of her naked breast "just ...

Congratulations! You've identified Marianne, the national personification of the French Republic since the 1789-99 French Revolution. "Marianne is a familiar face in French culture that is ...