France
20th October 1947
Interesting semi-postal stamp issued to promote health and preventive medicine, in particular the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
It was a reissue of a stamp issued in 1946 (Yvert & Tellier 748).
The stamp depicts Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1914), sexologist.
Jean Alfred Fournier was a French dermatologist who specialized 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 789
Michel FR 788
Stamp Number FR B221
Stanley Gibbons FR 961
Michel FR 788
Stamp Number FR B221
Stanley Gibbons FR 961
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