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 ...