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Paris: the post office for the Place du Châtelet and les Halles (C J Hitchen)
Chère Maman – A Sailor’s Story ... – A Sailor’s Story – from France and the Mediterranean
to Gabon and Cameroun – the Vicissitudes and Impact of World War II (M P Bratzel)
South of Suez (O Dahl, revisited by M Round)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  1902 annotation curiosity (M L Bister)
 •  Mauritania: The 1F50 Brown-Red (M Round)
 •  Unissued ‘Peace’ design (M L Bister)
 •  Cabolé - Dahomey et Dépendances (S Binsted, M S Tyler)
 •  Renovated post office in Burgundy (M L Bister)
 •  Request for WWII German Handstamps (D H Trapnell)
 •  Calling all Colonies collectors [Madagascar] (J Parmenter)

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The Joseph de la Nézière Pictorials of French West Africa (M L Bister)
Bureaux et Recettes Auxiliaires 1887-1902, their background, function and operation, Part 1 1887-1894 (P R A Kelly)
Wrapper from Great Britain to Nossi-Bé, Madagascar (J K Courtis)
Digital Image Resuscitation - an amateur’s method (D H Trapnell)
Digging for Dogba (S Binsted)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  Cabolé - Dahomey et Dépendances (W G Mitchell)
 •  An Experiment in Printing Colour (M S Tyler)
 •  Philatelic Confections in World War II (D J Hogarth)
 •  Free French 1944 Christmas Charity Postcard (R D Larg)

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Obituary: Derek Richardson (M L Bister, M S Tyler, C J Hitchen)
Bureaux et Recettes Auxiliaires 1887-1902: Their background, function and operation, Part 2 (P R A Kelly)
Aspects of Anti-Communism in Vichy France: A Tale of Two Legions (D J Hogarth)
The Winged Victory of Samothrace (E Voerman)
Post-independence postmarks of Brazzaville, Part 1 (M Parren)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  Cameroun – Bui Poste Automobile Rurale Postmark and ‘Mitterand’ error (M StJ Wright & M P Bratzel)
 •  Free French 1944 Christmas Charity Postcard (J Lucaci)
 •  Dogba Revisited (E J Grabowski)
 •  Andorra insists! (M Round)
 •  The Joseph de la Nézière pictorials of French West Africa (M L Bister)
 •  42nd Annual Philatelic Weekend 9-11 March 2018 (MLB)

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Le Relais Poste Urbain – a major change in the post office network in France (C J Hitchen)
Newspaper Wrapper from Great Britain to Saigon via Brindisi (Dr J K Courtis FRPSL)
Post-independence postmarks of Brazzaville, Part 2 (M Parren)
German Directional handstamps on the mail of WW2 French POWs in Germany (D H Trapnell)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers.
 •  Marianne l’engagée (R N Broadhurst)
 •  Visa pour Date (E Voerman)
 •  Andorra Update (M Round)
 •  The Winged Victory of Samothrace (D G Parmley)
 •  Dogba Revisited (P R A Kelly)
 •  New earliest cancellation reported for Cové, Dahomey (J Dutt)
 •  Aspects of Anti-Communism in Vichy France (E Voerman)

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70th Anniversary Edition

From Stamp Club to Philatelic Society (M L Bister)
A Member Remembers (G I Nash)
Vive la F&CPS! (M L Bister)
Mauritania - the 1F50 stamps of 1938 and 1947 (W G Mitchell).
Riots in Réunion 1868 and a French Warship (P R A Kelly)
The Paris-Calais Estafette – First Recorded Use (W Williams)
Just before France joined the General Postal Union 1 July - 31 December 1875 (Mme B Abensur)
The ‘Palm-Climber’ issue of Dahomey (J Dutt)
Beauty and the Beast – A Tale of Two Planes (D J Hogarth)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers.
 •  Un passe-temps agréable! (M Round)
 •  Comoro Islands: Two Mysterious Face Values (M Round)
 •  Marianne l’engagée update (R N Broadhurst).
 •  A Labour of Love: La Tour Eiffel (D L Prendy).
 •  A taxing cover from Nigeria to Niger (S Wells) .

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Côte d’Ivoire SECAP meter stamps used at post offces since 1997 (M Parren)
French Mandates of Syria and Lebanon, Part 1 (A J Lawrence)
The Coiffes Régionales of the 18th Century issue (E Voerman)
New Postal Forgeries of Marianne Self-adhesive Stamps used on Nigerian-type Scam Letters (F P Katz)
From Vichy France to England via Lisbon, March-July 1941 (Ms B M K Priddy)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  Marianne l’engagée Update (R N Broadhurst)
 •  170th Anniversary of the frst French postage stamp 20c Cérès, 1849-2019 (R N Broadhurst)
 •  La Réunion: the ‘2c’ surcharge of 7 December 1894 (S Fairchild, M Round)
 •  New Caledonia (M Round)
 •  Little and Large (M Round, M L Bister)
 •  Indochina stamp (M Blackledge, R Bentley)
 •  French Somali Coast (M Round)
 •  Mystery of the 1F Le Touquet airmail rate (M L Bister)

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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)

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Post-independence postmarks of the Central African Republic - Part 1 (M Parren & M Bohnstedt)
Senegal: Rare Destination of a Post Office (Dr J K Courtis FRPSL)
French Mandates of Syria and Lebanon - Part 3 (A Lawrence)
Grenoble Winter Olympics: 6 - 18 February 1968 (E Voerman)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  170th Anniversary of the first French postage stamp 20c Cérès,1849-2019 (cont.) (R Broadhurst)
•  URGENT letters from Indochina (R Bentley)
•  French WW2 POW mail from German prison camps addressed to France “c/o General Post Office Via Grande-Bretagne" (Various contributors)
•  Fake or fortune? (M Alder)
•  Type Sage, missing imprint – suite (M Round)
•  Wartime Mail held in Transit (D Hogarth)
•  New Postal rates in France 2020 (R Broadhurst)
•  Reopening of the Musée de la Poste (R Broadhurst)

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Post-independence postmarks of the Central African Republic - Part 2 (M Parren & M Bohnstedt)
Camp des Milles (David Hogarth)
St. Pierre & Miquelon: The 1885 Gothic Surcharges (J R. Taylor FRPSL)
The CFA franc, and other currencies (M Round)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  The French Red Cross: The Russian that no one wanted (J West)
•  Guadeloupe Puzzle, Solved (M Round)
•  Mourning Envelopes (E Voerman)
•  Albert Decaris proofs (E Voerman)
•  Look after your valuables (D J Morris ACII)
•  An unpublished moveable box mark The Boîte Mobile orné of Neuvy-sur-Loire (P Kelly FRPSL)
•  Le Foyer du soldat (C Scott FRPSL)
•  Camp des Milles Addenda (M Bister)
•  French Mourning Stationery (C Scott FRPSL)
•  Mourning Covers (M Bister)
•  Senegal: Rare destination of a Post Office postal stationery wrapper from Great Britain (P Kelly FRPSL)
•  Type Duval Chiffre-Taxe (D Huckett)

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France and the British post office 1660 to 1833 (C. Hitchen) .
Post-independence postmarks of the Central African Republic - Part 3 (M. Parren & M. Bohnstedt).
The International Reciprocal Concessionary Rate for Newspapers and Periodicals (E. Voerman) .
The 1F50 ‘tolerated’ letter rate to the Comité International de la Croix Rouge in Geneva (M. Bister).
A guide to blocs-feuillets and other miniature sheets (R. Broadhurst) .
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  Jeunesse & Montagne (D. Hogarth).
•  French Transatlantic Mail (S. Ellis)
•  Guadeloupe Puzzle (M. Tyler) .
•  The Napoleonic Wars 1803 – 1815: (1) The Treaties of Tilsit (J. Cowlin)
•  The Napoleonic Wars 1803 – 1815: (2) The Capture of Vilna (J. Cowlin)
•  FIDES vignettes (R. Broadhurst)
•  Die proofs of issued and unissued designs (P. Miller)
•  Research Offers: Spanish Civil War Refugees in France and Citadel of Sisteron (D. Hogarth)
•  New postal rates in France 2021 (R. Broadhurst)
•  Proof of posting (T. Cordell)