REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE POSTE stamps, from the 1950s through the 1970s. The collection includes a variety of commemorative stamps featuring historical figures and landmarks. Some stamps depict Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), a famous French painter, physicists François Arago and André-Marie Ampère, playwright Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), Hippolyte Taine (1828-1895), Gaston Ramon, the bicentenary of the Alfort Veterinary School, and Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), Esprit Auber (1782-1871), Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), Victor Grignard (1871-1936), and Anne-Marie Javouhey (1779-1851) and the agricultural goddess Ceres. Other stamps showcase architectural sites, such as the Château de Saumur, the Palais des Papes in Avignon, Salines de Chaux-Nicolas Ledoux, Vienne, Cluny, and Saint Pol de Leon.
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