Popular Culture

A French motorcycle advertisement poster for the company Favor.<ul><li>Pierre Bellenger (French, b. 1909).</li><li>"Simple, practical, elegant"</li><li>Paper backed with linen.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Favor, manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles, was founded in 1898 in Clemont-Ferrand, a French city in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region where the Michelin tire company is also based. Favor motorcycles were regularly ridden to victory in French national championships throughout the 1950s. The company closed in 1977.&nbsp;