L'Union Française - Les Etats Associés d'Indochine.

Original chromo lithographed poster showing Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indochina, published ca. 1948 for "Les Etats Associés d'Indochine Affaire ".
Pictorial poster designed by Luchien Logé in 1948 after the occupation by Japan.
In lower left inset of maritime and air routes from France to Indochina.

Logé’s vision of French Indochina is a richly exotic and vibrantly colorful portrait of peaceful, beneficent colonialism. Presented as a geographically integrated entity, but with regional borders between its constituent territories, it is a region seemingly entirely untouched by World War Two.

Extensive presence of passengers ship in the peaceful waters of the South China Sea. Logé focuses on the richness of indigenous flora and fauna, with attractive vignettes of elephants, snakes, monkeys, deer, tigers & leopards. The region’s important natural resources are also highlighted, with beautifully presented scenes of rice planting, farming, logging and mining.
Nor does Logé’s Indochinese vision ignore the wealth & richness of the region’s own indigenous history and culture, as equally striking illustrations reference things; unique archaeological sites & temple ruins of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat & Kampong Cham and Vietnam’s ancient Imperial City of Hué (later the scene of terrible fighting during the Vietnam War’s 1968 Tet Offensive).

The poster was made for the in 1946 created "L'Union Française" (The French Union), was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial system, colloquially known as the "French Empire". It was the formal end of the "indigenous" status of French subjects in colonial areas.