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Advertising Poster Horse Racing Lottery Loterie Nationale Prix Du President France. Original vintage advertising poster for the French National Lottery with the text in French reading: Loterie Nationale - Prix du President de la Republique - Tirage le 27 mars. Great artwork by Couronne showing a fashionable woman and a man in suit and top hat watching the races set against a green background. Pierre Couronne had a long career as a painter and publicist painter in Paris.Passionate about drawing and painting, he went to Paris in 1946 to study at the Acad�mie de la Grande Chaumi�re. Under the name of Pierot, he specialized in illustrations for advertisements, the most famous of which boasted the Bic ballpoint pen, Omo detergent, luxury products and many others, such as the national lottery. He also illustrated children's books. At the end of the 1970s, he chose to return to live in in C�vennes where he painted the landscapes he loved. The Prize of the President of the Republic is a horse race of mounted trotting that takes place in June at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris . It's a race Group I reserved for horses of 4 years , geldings excluded, having won at least 38 000 � . It is run over the distance of 2,850 meters (long track). The allowance amounts to � 200,000 , including � 90,000 for the winner. Created on May 31, 1897in Vincennes in the presence of President Faure 1 , 2 , the race is then open to 3 and 4 year olds 3 . Subsequently run in the 1900s on the racecourse of Saint-Cloud - then temple of the French trot - and reserved for the elite of 3 years , it is replaced as such in 1924 by the Prix ??de Vincennes and becomes this year - the classic 4 year old . The 1923 edition was thus won by the 3 year old Uranie 4 , Note 1 and the 1924 edition by the 4 year old Uriel V 5 . The race took the name of Prix ??de France under the Vichy regime and resumed under the current name in 1947. Good condition, creasing, fold. Country of issue: France, designer: Couronne, size (cm): 40x30, year of printing: 1978.
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