hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 24, 2018 19:26:39 GMT
Here is the entire "London series" for Guadeloupe. Only 2 airmail issues in this one. Because the whole series was issued in 1945, there was no need anymore to label the stamps "France Libre", but the Lorraine Cross is still prominently displayed between the two RF letters. For the airmail issue, since it is the same design as for all other colonies, "France Libre" does appear. YT#178-196 and PA4-5.  |
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 24, 2018 19:52:00 GMT
hrdoktorx, what is the significance of the Lorraine Cross?
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renden
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Post by renden on Oct 24, 2018 19:53:37 GMT
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 24, 2018 20:02:06 GMT
hrdoktorx , what is the significance of the Lorraine Cross? The Lorraine cross was the symbol that General de Gaulle used to identify Free France. He was himself from Lorraine (the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises) and Alsace and Lorraine, having been tossed between Germany and France and their predecessor states since 843 A.D. when Charlemagne's grand-children split his Holy Roman Empire into three pieces, hold a very strong emotional place in the French psyche. So freeing Lorraine from the German oppressor (again...) was seen as a necessary condition for France to be whole once more. The Lorraine cross then became indissociable from de Gaulle's persona, and many of the stamp issues celebrating his life after his passing in 1970 feature it prominently. |
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