France

4th February 1946 

Semi-postal stamp issued to promote health and preventive medicine, in particular the prevention of venereal diseases.

The stamp depicts Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1914), sexologist.

Jean Alfred Fournier was a French dermatologist who specialised in the study of venereal disease. As a young man he served as an interne at the Hôpital du Midi as an understudy to Philippe Ricord. In 1863 he became médecine des hôpitaux, and from 1867 worked with Augustin Grisolle at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. 

Catalogue numbers:

Yvert et Tellier FR 748
Michel FR 744
Stamp Number FR B201
Stanley Gibbons FR 960

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