REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE issued on 23 February 1985 a First Day Cover honouring the Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland (1866-1944). The stamp carried a face value of 1.70 + 0.40 French Francs and featured a sketched portrait of Rolland alongside his facsimile signature.
Romain Rolland won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, primarily for his massive 10-volume novel Jean-Christophe. He was born on 29 January 1866, in Clamecy, France, which is the location marked on the special first day cancellation postmark.
He was a strong pacifist who wrote about international peace and corresponded with major figures including Maxim Gorki, Mahatma Ghandi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud. Hermann Hesse dedicated "Siddhartha" to Romain Rolland "my dear friend".
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