The French Symbol Marianne incarnates the French Republic and represents the values of the republic and the French citizens: "Freedom, Equality, Fraternity". Marianne is the notation symbolic of the motherland impetuous, warlike, peaceful, feeder and protective.

Sometimes Marianne, sometimes Marie-Anne, the origin of the name of Marianne is rather fuzzy, it seems that he is the result of a consensus between the partisans and the adversaries of the republic.

The representation of Marianne finds its origin in Antiquity.

Symbols of Marianne:

The phrygian cap – freedom
The crown – capacity
The naked centre – feeder symbol and emancipation
The armour – invincibility
The mouth or legs of lion – the courage and the force of the people
The star – light
The triangle – equality
The broken chains – freedom
The cross hands – fraternity
The beams – authority of the state
The balance – justice
The hive – work
The Tables of the law – law

The representations of the French Symbol Marianne differ according the times and concerns from the French people. It systematically does not carry the totality of the symbols. Marianne can be represented in foot or bust.

At the twentieth century, all the town halls gradually obtain a bust of Marianne, which wears from now on the Phrygian cap systematically and appears disencumbered of its other attributes (beam of weapons, level or balances). It takes to the features famous woman: Brigitte Bardot, Mireille Matthieu, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta but the busts always remain of topicality.

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