“À la porte les tyrans” (“Out with the tyrants”). Drawn by A. Willette during the First World War, this La Baïonnetteillustration channels popular anger into blunt visual command. Tyranny is not debated, reformed, or negotiated—it is expelled.
Revisited today, the image reads less as propaganda than as warning. Authoritarian power rarely exits on its own. It leaves only when challenged, resisted, and pushed back beyond the threshold.
“À la porte les tyrans” (“Out with the tyrants”). Drawn by A. Willette during the First World War, this La Baïonnetteillustration channels popular anger into blunt visual command. Tyranny is not debated, reformed, or negotiated—it is expelled.
Revisited today, the image reads less as propaganda than as warning. Authoritarian power rarely exits on its own. It leaves only when challenged, resisted, and pushed back beyond the threshold.
