French President Emmanuel Macron has enlisted a street artist to create a new image of Marianne, the symbol of liberty and the de facto face of France, which appears on the country’s postage stamps.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the national symbol proves the swimsuit has no place in France—but not everyone agrees. By Yasmeen Serhan A bust of the French revolutionary symbol "Marianne" in ...

Every five years, the president selects a new depiction of the feminine national symbol to be used as the country's standard stamp. Monday, June 23, ... France's new Marianne stamp goes green.

As with Marianne herself, the cap goes all the way back to antiquity but in France it's particularly associated with the Revolutionaries of the 1790s, cementing her status as a symbol of the ...

The new emblem of the French Republic, or Marianne, ... an image that would later become the national symbol in France. Marianne first emerged in the public eye in July 1789, ...

Because France and the Republic are, in French, feminine nouns (la France, la République), ... A 1795 illustration of Marianne (La Liberté ), a national symbol of the French Republic.

At first glance, the logo for the 2024 Paris Olympics resembles the traditional flame introduced at the Amsterdam Games in 1928. However, a closer inspection reveals something entirely different.

Her face is everywhere from famous artworks to postage stamps, tax bills to public buildings - but who actually is France's 'Marianne'?