Vichy France
9th August 1944
Attractive semi-postal stamp marking Stamp Day (Journée du Timbre).
It depicts the coat of arms of the founder of the Paris city post office (1653), Renouard de Villayer.
In 1653 as the tenant of the Paris City Post, Renouard de Villayer ordered post boxes to be set up at different places in Paris. Letters, prepaid with a uniform postage of 1 sol, could be put in these boxes and were then delivered inside of the city within the same day. The receipts (billet de port payé), which were issued for this purpose and had to be attached to the letters as postage, are considered to be early precursors of the postage stamp. There are no examples still existing today. The so-called Petite Poste was an economic failure, but was later successfully imitated in other European cities (for example by the London Penny Post as of 1680).
Catalogue numbers:
Yvert et Tellier FR 668
Michel FR 672
Stamp Number FR B190
Stanley Gibbons FR 900
Michel FR 672
Stamp Number FR B190
Stanley Gibbons FR 900
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