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Who were Marianne and Germania? What was the importance of the way in which they were portrayed?

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Marianne and Germania were respective female allegories for the French and the German nationalism.

Importance: They stood as personifications of nationalistic idea of nations. The importance of the way in which they were portrayed lies in the fact that the public could identify with their symbolic meaning, and this would instill a sense of national unity in them.


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