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

Background

Pre-stamp mail

Postal reform

First stamps

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.

References

^ "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

External links

The France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1ng.9 p32-37

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.

[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

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