Château du Pailly

France – The Château du Pailly is considered to be the most prestigious example of Renaissance architecture in Champagne-Ardenne. On the stamp, on the right, the engraver represented the North West façade with the dungeon and moats. On the left, anRead More

The twelve Chinese astrological signs

France – Booklet of 12 postage stamps stickers at the price of the green letter representing the 12 Chinese astrological signs. It is the artist LI Zhongyao who created for the French Post the twelve drawings, in the ancestral spirit, onRead More

Coeur Balmain – Yellow

France – It was in 1945, at 44 rue François 1er, on the 1st floor of a mansion in the 8th arrondissement in Paris that the young Pierre Balmain, former assistant of Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy, installed the headquartersRead More

Marc Chagall 1887 – 1985

France – Marc Chagall – Moses Zakharovich Chagalov – was born on 7 July 1887 near Vitebsk (Belarus, at the time in the Russian Empire). He was naturalized French in 1937 and died on 28 March 1985 in Saint-Paul de Vence.Read More

Reflections – World Landscapes

France – La Poste issues a booklet of 12 self-adhesive postage stamps at the rate of the priority letter for letters up to 20 g destined for France. These are illustrated with sumptuous landscapes that can be seen throughout the world.Read More