La Vie Parisienne - En Route vers le Royaume des Neiges - December 1923 Original Magazine Cover Print RefPO#08 This poster advertises the Theâtre

This poster advertises the Theâtre Pompadour in Paris

featuring this red-faced character making out with two types of the company's waffles

Unfortunately this has been overshadowed by the fact that it became the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944

Any poster which survives today that has a tax stamp was likely taken out of the billposter's stack of posters before it could be pasted up

In 1931 he was appointed as an Official Peintre de l'Air or Painter of the Air by the French government

La Vie Parisienne - En Route vers le Royaume des Neiges - December 1923 Original Magazine Cover Print RefPO#08 This poster advertises the TheâtreFounded in 1863, La Vie Parisienne was originally designed to appeal to the upper classes, offering literary pieces, society gossip and articles about the arts. It also featured the work of immensely talented artists like Georges Barbier, Gerda Wegener, Chri Hrouard, Georges Lonnec, Maurice Milliere. The artwork was considered risqu, even erotic (think early porn for the intellectual). Maurice Milliere did some great illustrations for La Vie