Vintage French School Poster Tuberculosis Respiration Double-Sided Chart 1111261

French Vintage School Poster Tuberculosis

A double-sided French vintage school poster tuberculosis chart published by Editions Rossignol of Montmorillon (Vienne), numbered 7 on one face and 8 on the other. Rossignol was France's leading producer of classroom educational charts from the postwar decades through the 1970s, supplying schools across the country with crisp, color-coded diagrams that made complex science instantly legible to young students. The two sides cover complementary subjects: side 7 addresses les echanges gazeux (gas exchange) and la tuberculose, with labeled cross-sections of an alveole, a dust-particle circle identifying microbes and pollen, a tuberculose pulmonaire diagram showing bacilles de Koch, and a pneumothorax illustration. Side 8 turns to la respiration, mapping the full respiratory system, pulmonary lobules, inspiratory and expiratory rib movements, and a mechanical model of pulmonary ventilation.

The graphic language is confident and clear: flat fields of coral pink, deep green, cobalt blue and brick red, each zone precisely labeled in clean French typography. Posters like this one carried a generation of French schoolchildren through their first encounter with human biology, and today they translate effortlessly onto a study wall, a hallway, or grouped with other scientific prints in a home library. The Rossignol imprint at lower right is fully legible on both sides.

Condition and patina consistent with age. Light overall toning to the paper ground and a small crease visible on side 7 near the upper right corner, as expected from decades of classroom use.

Approx. 35.4 in wide x 29.5 in high (90 x 75 cm).

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