Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Celebrating an Historical Event. I choose some French stamps I have recently got:
The Treaty of Picquigny is a peace treaty signed on 29 August 1475 between the King of France Louis XI and the King of England Edward IV in Picquigny (Picardy; today located in the Somme department). It definitively puts an end to the Hundred Years' War.
The stamp was issued on 30 June 2017, on a two-stamps mini-sheet. It belongs to the series Les Grandes heures de l'histoire de France (='The Great Hours of French History').
The Journée des Tuiles (='Day of the Tiles') was an event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on 7 June 1788. It was one of the first disturbances which preceded the French Revolution, and is credited by a few historians as its start.
The stamp was issued on 18 June 1988, commemorating the Bicentenary of the French Revolution.
Other stamps from this series I have got, issued on 25 February 1989, and related to relevant people of this historical event:
I love the concept of the 100 Years War stamp with the barrier. Must have been a horrendous period to live through and great relief at the end.
ReplyDeleteJust the name "100 Years War" gives me a chill. People who was born in wartime, and died in wartime...
DeleteI guess after 100 years, even a peace treaty wasn't going to allow Edward to be invited in for a drink to toast the end.
ReplyDeleteI also don't think anyone nowadays who had their reputation ruined by scandal would be honoured on a stamp.
Those bottom two have an interesting design.
It is never easy to decide who appears on a stamp, and that's one thing I love about philately: how the stamps reflects not only the history, but the view of each contry/period.
DeleteThanks for the history lesson!
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