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| Subject : Marianne Country / Post : France Primary theme : National symbols / Mankind (Women) Date of Issue : 15 July 2013 Denomination : Monde 20g Number in set : 20 Description :
The new French stamp unveiled by the president
Francois Hollande as part of Bastille Day celebrations
has caused quite a stir in France this week…
Each French president gets to choose an illustration
of ‘La Marianne’ for the stamp decorations and this tradition
goes back nearly 50 years. Marianne was not a real person
but has become a symbol of the French revolution and
of freedom, providing inspiration for countless statues,
sculptures and paintings. In 1830, painter Eugene Delacroix
depicted a bare-breasted Marianne brandishing a tricolor
flag and leading her people over the bodies of the fallen in
his famous painting “Liberty Leading the People”.
Many iconic French women, actresses,
singers and models have previously inspired the Marianne.
We can count amongst them Brigitte Bardot,
Ines De Fressange, Laeticia Casta and Catherine Deneuve.
The new stamp depicts a youthful Marianne,
a symbol of the French republic, wearing a Phrygian
conical cap but does not show her topless and
was chosen by high-school students.
The image on the stamp, co-created by French artist
and gay-rights activist Olivier Ciappa and illustrator David Kowena,
was also influenced by Renaissance art,
French comic strips and even the graphic novels of Japanese manga.
Ciappa told Agence France-Presse that he thinks Shevchenko is
an appropriate model for the stamp since the mythical Marianne
would have been a member of FEMEN if such an organization
had existed in her time. (It is instructive to note that Shevchenko
and her fellow FEMEN cohorts often topless during
their well-orchestrated public protests).
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