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Madame Anastasia and her big scissors

Maurice Leroy

La Guerre et les humoristes, Exposition organisée par les Sociétés des dessinateurs humoristes et des artistes humoristes, poster, 1917

© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet

Anastasia was often represented as a shifty older woman carrying out-sized scissors, a symbol of the cuts made in articles and literary texts by the Censorship Office.

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