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An 1849 stamp of France.

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of France.

Background

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Pre-stamp mail

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Postal reform

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First stamps

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The Ceres stamps were the first postage stamp series of France issued on 1 January 1849 during the Second French Republic.[1] Six denominations were produced between 1849 and 1850, where the effigy of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, was a representation of the French Republic.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2011-07-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved 23 September 2010

Further reading

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  • Hoisington, William A. (Jr) (Spring 1973). "Politics and Postage Stamps: The Postal Issues of the French State and Empire 1940-1944". French Historical Studies. 7 (3): 349–67. doi:10.2307/286219. JSTOR 286219.
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Schobesberger, Nikolaus, et al. “European Postal Networks.” News Networks in Early Modern Europe, edited by Noah Moxham and Joad Raymond, Brill, LEIDEN; BOSTON, 2016, pp. 19–63. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1ng.9. Accessed 16 Apr. 2021.