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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

donned during the French Revolution of 1789. It can be seen on busts of Marianne, a woman considered "the embodiment of the French Republic," according to Olympics organizers. The caps were worn ...