As per tradition, the new President has chosen the new face of the national waifu, Marianne. It'll be on every stamp for the next five years.
http://s1.lprs1.fr/images/2018/07/19/7826241_249eeb44-8b38-11e8-b888-19b8baeda479-1.jpg
Done by an artist called YZ over a wall, which differs quite heavily from the previous ones which have mostly been sculpted busts.
2013 waifu for reference
http://mondephilatelique.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2013/07/Ciappa-Kawena-Catelin-ROUGE.jpg
Understandably there's no English articles I could find for something so minor, but I felt like sharing this, because it's a neat little tradition and we get to have our very own national waifu.
French sources as a formality :
http://www.europe1.fr/societe/photo-emmanuel-macron-devoile-le-nouveau-visage-de-marianne-3714524
https://actu.orange.fr/france/emmanuel-macron-revele-le-visage-de-la-nouvelle-marianne-magic-CNT0000014T65i.html
National waifus are actually fairly common. The US has Columbia/Statue of Liberty, the UK has Britannia, Germany has Germania, Switzerland has Helvetia.
Yeh fairly common but five-year office terms for national waifus are not. Most of them were painted back in the 1800's when nationalism was invented, and then just stay as they are.
Your waifu a shit.
A SHIT.
Can the president only pick the face? Both of the have similar hair and an odd hat.
Patriotic bodypillows when
why not build a giant statue of wifu and place her in the middle of paris or something?
The Phrygian Cap is actually a pretty important symbol considering it represents the Republic.
Oh damn Columbia wears it too
Here we have hispania, although I feel republicans use her more:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58146/dfdc3b12-6072-432c-bc40-a698d3675c09/image.png
Have some respect, Marianne is a huge fan of the Smurfs.
http://www.therobotsvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/smurfs-header-thumb-320x260.jpg
damn, hair goals
uh no that's Belgica
Does the Statue of Liberty really count when it was a gift from France?
I mean American men do love French women but the Statue of Liberty has a pretty haggard face, tbqh.
http://getdrawings.com/image/statue-of-liberty-face-drawing-53.jpg
Even more evident when you look at the original design:
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/42/34/37/9029574/3/920x920.jpg
The hair is just a matter of preference, most versions of Marianne have had long curly hair but there's been exceptions, especially when they are based on real people.
http://static1.purepeople.com/articles/2/45/70/2/@/330333-mireille-mathieu-prend-ainsi-la-pose-opengraph_1200-4.jpg
Brazil has Christ the Redeemer
You're forgetting husbandos too, Uncle Sam and John Bull to name the most significant ones.
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