In April 1949 the French government presented the ´óÏó´«Ã½ with a large tapestry, Le Poète (The Poet), which was hung in Broadcasting House.
It was designed by Jean Lurçat and made by Messrs Aubusson, on behalf of the French people as a thank you for the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s wartime broadcasting. Lurçat is said to have developed the design from verses of a poem, Liberté, by Paul Éluard.
The Manchester Guardian said, at the time of the presentation, that the image represented a member of the Maquis, hidden in a leafy grotto, receiving a carrier pigeon and a fish, "symbolic of the information which arrived by air and from couriers who landed in submarines!"
The Poet Tapestry
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