Beschreibung:

Lot of 3 French World War I posters, the first a depiction of a soldier and woman embracing, which reads Journee du Poilu / "Enfin seuls...! / 25 et 26 Decembre 1915 / Organisee par le Parliament, translating to Day of the French Soldier / "Alone at last" / December 25 and 26 1915 / Organized by parliament., illustration by Adolphe Leon Willette, 31.5 x 47 in, professionally backed with linen; a poster that reads at the base L'Emprunt de la Liberation (Borrowing from the Liberation), depicting a white-mustached man resembling Kaiser Wilhelm II, wearing a white helmet and cape and holding a broken sword, holding his head down, looking dejected, with a large group of allied flags at his back, produced by Abel Faivre with Pichot Imp., Paris at lower right, 31.5 x 44.5 in., professionally backed with linen, 34.5 x 45.5 in.; and a poster that reads 3e Emprunt de la Defense Nationale / Souscrivez pour la France qui combat! pour Celle qui chaque jour grandit. (Borrowing from the 3rd National Defense / Subscribe to the France that Fights! to one that grows everyday.) Featuring a depiction of a child in a soldier's arms, with a mother feeding a baby in lower left, produced by Auguste Leroux 1917, with Imprimerie Joseph Charles - Paris printed along bottom margin, 30.25 x 43.5 in., professionally backed with linen. Condition: First poster has a few small tears in poster along perimeter; second with even toning; third with two vertical creases one in top-middle portion and one extending from middle portion to bottom