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Paix et Liberté Collection, 1950-1952: Finding Aid
MC102
'(pictured: 'La Vie Exemplaire du Petit Jacques Duclos')'
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Published in June 1998
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Paix et liberté.
- Title and dates:
- Paix et Liberté Collection, 1950-1952
- Abstract:
- French politician Jean-Paul David created Paix et Liberté, a French anti-Communist propaganda organization, in the fall of 1950 for the purpose of waging a poster campaign in direct opposition to political posters published by the French Communist Party since the end of World War II. The organization often used the words and themes of the French Communist Party's posters to ridicule their political agenda.
- Size:
- 0.31 linear feet (1 half-size archival box and 1 oversize folder)
- Call number:
- MC102
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Public Policy Papers.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- French.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
History of Paix et liberté
In the fall of 1950, Jean-Paul David, mayor of Mantes, Deputy from Seine-et-Oise and Radical Socialist Party politician, created the organization Paix et Liberté in order to expose what he perceived as the communist lies presented to the French public through the posters published and distributed by the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). The PCF had developed an extremely successful billboard campaign using the 1949 drawing of Pablo Picasso's peace dove, which he created for the PCF's World Committee of Peace Partisans' conference held in Paris in the spring of 1949. The success of this poster in particular spurred David, with the support of Premier René Pleven, to organize a semi-private, anti-Communist agency. This agency published and distributed posters supplemented by newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, stickers, and tracts that used the words, themes and symbols of the Communist Party to counter their message. In fact, the Paix et Liberté poster titled “The Dove that Goes Bang” redesigned Picasso's peace dove adorning the dove with a tank-turret for a head and a cannon for a beak. The posters also criticized several important figures within the PCF including Maurice Thorez, head of the PCF from 1930-1964, a minister of state under de Gaulle in 1945 and deputy premier in 1947 and Jacques Duclos and Marcel Cachin, both party members. Other posters criticized Lenin and Stalin.
Description
Consists primarily of material published by Paix et Liberte including tracts, leaflets, handbills, stamps, letters to professional groups, posters, final press releases, and radio speeches, all in French. A few articles from the American press regarding the political and social impact of the group's posters in France are also present. The bulk of the collection consists of graphical and textual oversized posters. The graphic designs are either based on Picasso's dove or photographs and caricatures of PCF members or Soviet leaders, including Jacques Duclos, Marcel Cachin, Maurice Thorez, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series by form: Documents and Posters. Series 1, Documents, consists primarily of material published by Paix et Liberté including tracts, leaflets, handbills, stamps, letters to professional groups, final press releases, and radio speeches, all in French. A few articles from the American press regarding the political and social impact of the group's posters in France are also found. Series 2, Posters, is comprised of 34 oversized posters; 20 of these are text only and the remaining 14 contain graphic designs either based on Picasso's dove or photographs and caricatures of PCF members or Soviet leaders. After the titles of the posters a notation indicates whether the poster is based on text or design material. These materials document Paix et Liberté's efforts to counteract French Communist Party propaganda distributed in post-World War II France.
Access and Use
Access
The Paix et Liberté Collection is open for research.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Curator of the Public Policy Papers. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Acquisition and Appraisal
Provenance and Acquisition
This collection of posters, press releases, radio speeches and tracts was given by Jean-Paul David in 1952 through the courtesy of Oden H. Meeker, Class of 1941. (AM 14591).
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Christine W. Kitto in June 1998. Finding aid written by Christine W. Kitto in June 1998.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on October 13, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Paix et Liberté Collection, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Adaptations.
- Duclos, Jacques, 1896-1975 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Lenin, Vladimir Iliách, 1870-1924 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1964 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Thorez, Maurice, 1900-1964 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Anti-communist movements -- France.
- Communism and art.
- Communism -- France.
- Propaganda, Anti-communist -- 20th century.
- Propaganda, French -- History -- 20th century.
- Political posters, French -- 20th century.
- Radio scripts.
- Tracts (Documents).
- David, Jean- Paul.
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Contents List
Series 1, Documents
Tracts, Handbills, Stamps, Pamphlets, 1950
Box 1, Folder 1 Press Releases, 1951
Box 1, Folder 2 Letters to Professional Groups, 1950-1951
Box 1, Folder 3 Radio Speeches, 1951
Box 1, Folder 4 American Press Clippings, 1951-1952
Box 1, Folder 5 Series 2, Posters
1. Libérez Thorez
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 2. Ouvriers Communistes
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 3. Ouvriers Français
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 4. Deux Témoignages
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 5. Silence aux Fauteurs de Guerre!
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 6. Dégonflés!
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 7. Le Maréchal Staline Vous Parle
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 8. Paysans Attention aux Communistes
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 9. Anniversaire de la Morte de Lenine
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 10. C'est Pour Mieux Te Manger Mon Enfant
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 11. La Colombe Sanglante
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 12. Français!
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 13. Marcel Cachin
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 14. Le Réarmement Allemand?
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 15. Patrie
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 16. Soldat Russe
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 17. La Colombe Qui Fait Boum
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 18. Articles d'Importation
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 19. Pauvres Girouettes
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 20. Agriculteurs
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 21. Cultivateurs! …
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 22. 32e Anniversaire des Evenements
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 23. Paysans! Une Opinion Autorisée
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 24. Il y a 30 Ans
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 25. 30e Anniversaire du Parti Communiste
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 26. L'Allemagne Orientale est Désarmée …
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 27. Payépar l'or Soviétique
(text)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 28. La Vie Exemplair du Petit Jacques Duclos (1)
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 29. La Vie Exemplair du Petit Jacques Duclos (2)
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 30. La Vie Exemplair du Petit Jacques Duclos (3)
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 31. Thorez Vous Etes Chez Vous
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 32. La Pelle de Stockholm
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 33. Souvenir des Rendez-vous Cimentés par le Sang
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9 34. 17-6-40 au Lendermain de la Prise de Paris
(design)
Cabinet 5, Drawer 9
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