Artist: M. DE LINIÈRE
Size: 19 5/8 x 28 7/8 in./50 x 73.2 cm
Condition: A.
Printer: Publicité Wall, Paris
Reference: Ref: Affiches de l’Aviation, p. 46; PAI-XXXVII, A32

Ligue Nationale Aérienne. 1908.
The French National Air League was founded in Paris on September 2, 1908. Its sole purpose was to make France the global center of aviation -- a direct response to the recent birth of the German Air League, formed by Count Zeppelin. While a variety of early aircraft, including a Blériot, are seen hovering above France, illuminating the country on a globe with their spotlights, off in the distance we see one of Zeppelin’s creations, doing likewise for Germany amidst approaching dark clouds. If that were not warning enough, the text below warns of the thousand members already in Germany’s Air League, an enrollment which the French must beat. Quite possibly the first French airplane poster ever printed!