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An 1849 stamp of France.

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

Background

Pre-stamp mail

Postal reform

First stamps

Main article: Ceres series (France)

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

References

  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

External links

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.
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