The curator of the Roman Hungarian Academy, the Italian oriented Tibor Gerevich invited Vilmos Aba Novák to Rome between 1928-1930. The most important goal of the cult government was to send the artists to Rome and ltály, where their taste can become reserved and clear.

Through the foreign success and state commissions the career of Aba Novák was soon established. He won golden medal on the ecclesiastic arts exhibition held in Padovában in 1932. His first significant commission was the making of the frescoes of the Jászszentandrás parish church. The same year he received a small golden medal. In 1936 he was assigned for the works of the Heros' Gate in Szeged and the painting of the fresco of the council house in Székesfehérvár.

Aba Novák - likewise commissioned by the state - he painted the panno entitled Hungarian-French historical relations for the Parisian world exhibition.

Vilmos Aba Novák, who was outstanding artist of the gigantic style, painted the history of the Hungarian-French relationship in film -like pictures. He emphasised the most important themes, and connected the different events by sentence bands. In his tematics there appears the story of the midday toll, the religious freedom declared in 1564, the building of the Esztergom Royal Palace, Berlioz, the composer of the Rákóczi-melody, the Hungarian hussars of Bercsényi and La Fayette.

The work proved a great success in Paris. Aba Novák was awarded the Grand Prix.

The renovation of the work kept in the collection of the King St. Stefan Museum began in 2000. Through the careful labour of the restorers it may be once again exposed before the general public.