Number 291 December 2019

CONTENTS

Marianne and the Bear: Franco-Russian Relations 1891-1901 (D J Hogarth)
French WW2 POW mail from German prison camps addressed to France “c/o General Post Offce via Grande Bretagne” (D H Trapnell)
French Mandates of Syria and Lebanon, Part 2 (A J Lawrence)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  Fiscal Use of the Indochina Allegorical Group Type Stamps (E J Grabowski)
•  Monaco franking (M L Bister)
•  Fake or fortune? (D Atkins)
•  Printing Quality of the 170th Anniversary of the First French Stamp Miniature Sheet (A Telfer Brunton)
•  The Relais Poste in Normandy (M L Bister)
•  A Guadeloupe Puzzle (M Round)