Code d’honneur des Compagnons

ID(s):
1937204E0

Subject
Code of honor

Description:
A woman holding the French flag against her heart stands in the center of sixteen medallions surrounded by laurel leaves. Each contains an illustrated duty of the Companion. Reading from left to right and top to bottom:
- "In service to France"
- "United with your Companions"
- "Loyal to your leaders"
- "Persistent in work"
- "Train your body every day"
- "Boldly undertake"
-"Finish the task you begin"
- "Lend a hand to all"
- "Know that money corrupts"
- "Speak frankly. Keep your word"
- "Be cheerful, sober, and clean"
- "Chivalrous toward women"
- "Respectful with your family"
- "Deepen your faith - Illuminate your conviction"
- "Listen, seek to understand"
- "Show no mercy to laziness and cowardice"
- "Fight to be a man"

Source:
Private collection

Date:
1937 ca.

Language: French

Dimensions (cm):
76,0 x 55,7

Signature:
Bottom right

Materials:
Pencil, charcoal, gouache

Support:
Paper