What face will the Marianne represented on the famous postage stamps used by millions of French people have? The secret about the features of this symbol of the Republic is jealously guarded until the last minute because it is quite a political symbol.
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Hair down or wearing a Phrygian cap? Head turned to the right or rather to the left? Behind the features of this Marianne on the postage stamps hide political winks. Emmanuel Macron will unveil his new face on Tuesday, November 7, during a trip to the site of the stamp printing company, Philaposte, in Boulazac, in Dordogne.
If her face remains secret, we just know that she will be baptized “Marianne of the future” to embody, according to the Élysée, the return to the fundamentals of the Republic, openness to the world, ecological transition, themes chosen by Emmanuel Macron.
A message of unity?
It’s hard not to see it as an opportunity to send a new message of unity in a Republic that he knows is divided, fragmented, fractured. A little over three weeks after the assassination of a professor in Arras while anti-Semitic acts have increased since the Hamas attack in Israel.
“The president is keen to be the guarantor of unity”, justifies a minister. In 2018, already in Dordogne and already for the inauguration of the Marianne de la Poste, the head of state tried to defend a Republic “unalterable”. It was the day after the first revelations about the Benalla affair.