It was designed a surcharge stamp for the benefit of the French Red Cross. Claude Durrens designed and engraved the stamp. Colours used were bistre-brown and lilac, using an Intaglio printing method. A total of 4,160,000 copies were printed.
Albert Camus was a French (pied noir) philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works included The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
The postmark cancellation originated from Lourmarin. It's most famous resident was Albert Camus, the Nobel prize-winning author whose "L'Etranger" (The Stranger) is one of the great texts of the 20th century. It opens memorably: "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I'm not sure." ("Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.")
Camus hated driving and said he couldn't imagine a death more meaningless than dying in a car crash. For a writer so preoccupied with the meaninglessness of existence, it was tragically fitting that he died in a car accident, on the way from Lourmarin to Paris, in 1960. He was 46.
Albert Camus is buried in Lourmarin cemetery and has a street in Lourmarin named after him.
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