Cartoon by Piem on relations between Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (7 July 1980)

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‘FRG. It’s the sacred union.’ On 7 July 1980, as Valéry Giscard d’Estaing makes an official visit to the FRG, French cartoonist Piem paints an ironic picture of the good relations between the French President and Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. As he alights from the plane, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing kisses German soil as if he were the Supreme Pontiff, while the little ‘Gretchen’ with her tidy plaits, the representation of Germany in French cartoons, welcomes this seemingly mystical rapprochement between the two leaders.

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Source: PIEM (Pierre Georges Marie de Barrigue de Montvallon). "C'est l'union sacrée" dans Le Figaro Paris: Le Figaro. 07.07.1980.

Copyright: (c) Piem

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Cartoon by Piem on relations between Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (7 July 1980)