Soyez les Freres!', allegory of Republican France, by e courtaux 1871. Cartoon from a series titled La Grande Crucifiee!!! depicting Marianne as Republican France. Here she marches behind two men representing the French Army and the National Guard, comrades during the Prussian Siege of Paris who would become enemies when the French government launched its suppression of the Paris Commune in May 1871. From a private collection.