Letter: Advertising Gallic flair
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A better (and more accurate translation) of the caption is "freedom of expression was born on the walls"and shows that the use of a very ancient mural in support of the use of sexual imagery in modern advertising is a neat - and hardly pompous - example of Gallic flair and deftness.
MICHAEL VARCOE-COCKS
London W6
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