The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was itself a creature of French Mandate politics — established in 1919 as the currency-issuing authority for territories carved from the collapsed Ottoman Empire under League of Nations supervision. France's decision to route note production through the Banque de France rather than a commercial security printer reflected how closely the mandate administration tied monetary control to metropolitan institutions.
Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her engraving work as "Rita," was among the relatively few women working at that level in French intaglio printing during the interwar period.
The Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban was itself a creature of French Mandate politics — established in 1919 as the currency-issuing authority for territories carved from the collapsed Ottoman Empire under League of Nations supervision. France's decision to route note production through the Banque de France rather than a commercial security printer reflected how closely the mandate administration tied monetary control to metropolitan institutions.
Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her engraving work as "Rita," was among the relatively few women working at that level in French intaglio printing during the interwar period.