LSE4313022 The French Republic. Represented as a woman dressed in an antique drape and holding a plaque with the motto ???iberte, Egalite, Fraternite?? the hive at its feet represents fertility and order, the axe and beam are insignia of power, this allegory reproduces the usual shema of republican monuments that bloom in France after the revolution. of 1848, then after 1870 under the third republic. Artwork by Ferdinand Taluet (1820-1904), cast in plaster, 1848. Museum of Fine Arts in Angers. by Taluet, Ferdinand (1821-1904); Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France; (add.info.: The French Republic. Represented as a woman dressed in an antique drape and holding a plaque with the motto ???iberte, Egalite, Fraternite?? the hive at its feet represents fertility and order, the axe and beam are insignia of power, this allegory reproduces the usual shema of republican monuments that bloom in France after the revolution. of 1848, then after 1870 under the third republic. Artwork by Ferdinand Taluet (1820-1904), cast in plaster, 1848. Museum of Fine Arts in Angers.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.