The Archive · 1938

Peace Seems Assumed

People in the streets, jostling each lether, started up conversations about On the Champs Elysees, the statue of Georges Clemenceau, the "Tiger" o: the world war period, now a moi of the Entente Cordiale, is flood lit by three projectors. Its base iє covered with a tricoloured cloth.

The powerfül lights casting their beams on the statue are so arranged that they brighten the body of the sculptural work, but leave the face in shadow.

Around the clusters of ligh!

Are de Triomphe banging par and seeming to float without support—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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