Paris --Fluctuat nec mergitur [Tossed around but still afloat --the motto of the city of Paris since the 12th century] (To General Gallieni)
Maurice NeumontEngraving, 1914
© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet
Part of a series by Maurice Neumont entitled 1914!, this engraving personifies Paris as a woman fighter defying the enemy from a bastion. The city's slogan was a perfect illustration of its spirit of resistance.
