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Marianne: France’s Revolutionary Symbol Who Was Once Banned as Seditious
Marianne is today France's most reproduced official emblem, appearing on every euro coin and town hall wall — but for long stretches of her existence she was a suppressed, seditious symbol passed between republican conspirators like a revolutionary pamphlet. Her story is inseparable from the birth of the French Republic itself.
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