ISSUE 167 - November 1, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in STAMPS:
The Siege of Paris Issue
By Carl T. Boettger
(From Stamps Magazine, June 4, 1949, with images added)
In July 1870 France declared war on Prussia. The victorious Prussian armies steadily advanced through France to the environs of Paris. The Emperor Napoleon was taken prisoner, the Government transferred to Bordeaux and the people of Paris, after revolutionary outbreaks, set up a temporary republican form of government. On September 19, the siege of Paris began.
The new Government was without suitable postal stationery. To use the stamps of the Empire when . . .
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