POSTES REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE issued the following stamps:
- Caesar's Tower, Provins, a UNESCO World Heritage Sites, designed by Jean Pheulpin, on 13 June 1974.
- François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois was the French Secretary of State for War during a significant part of the reign of Louis XIV. He, together with his father, Michel le Tellier, oversaw an increase in the numbers of the French Army, eventually reaching 340,000 soldiers – an army that would fight four wars between 1667 and 1713. A stamp in 1947 was issued to honour him.
- Europa 1967, issued on 5 February 1967, is a work by Belgian artist Oscar Bonnevalle. It illustrated the system that Posts and Telecommunications play in a modern economy: the large cogwheels symbolise European industrial power, guarantee of work, progress and prosperity, that have been set in motion thanks to the central wheel which represents the cooperation of the countries grouped within the CEPT and tending towards this essential goal which is and remains, through the tightening of the links between the different Administrations, the harmonisation of services in the very interest of several hundred million European users.
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