An original Second World War Poster. ‘A Tous les Français' [To All French People], 1940. London. J. Weiner Ltd. 2nd printing (76cm by 51cm) with the printer’s details in the bottom right-hand corner. Oak Framed and glazed. The poster containing much of the text of General Charles de Gaulle’s famous “call to arms” speech broadcast via the BBC following the fall of France. This London printing was by J. Weiner Ltd. in November 1940 and is in superb original condition. An early printing of one of the most famous posters in the history of Free France. Following the resignation of France’s Prime Minister Paul Renaud, General De Gaulle resolved to go to London to meet with Churchill and there continue the fight for free France. De Gaulle wrote in his War Memoirs that Churchill ‘immediately offered me the BBC and put it at my service as somewhere to begin. We agreed that I would use it as soon as the Pétain administration asked for armistice. That very evening we found out that he had done so’. The next day, on 18 June 1940, De Gaulle spoke to the French people on the BBC and ignited the spirit of the Free French movement. Within a month, he revisited that speech by writing a version intended for England’s French citizens, and to be printed on a poster that would become known as De Gaulle’s ‘call to arms’.