Madame Anastasia and her big scissors
Maurice LeroyLa Guerre et les humoristes, Exposition organisée par les Sociétés des dessinateurs humoristes et des artistes humoristes, affiche, 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.
