Marshal Petain. COUDON. 1er mai 1941. Fête du... Lot 348

Marshal Petain. COUDON. 1er mai 1941. Fête du travail. Je tiens les promesses même celles des autres. Colored poster measuring 37 x 28 cm. Text in blue and white. Good condition. Marshal Pétain shakes hands with a worker against the background of a factory with smoking chimneys. At the bottom is Marshal Philippe Pétain's phrase: 'Je tiens les promesses même celles des autres' (I keep my promises, even those of others).Henri-Philippe-Omer Pétain was a French general and politician. A renowned general during the First World War, Marshal of France, he headed the collaborationist Vichy government from 1940 to 1944, following the second armistice of Compiègne.