
- Postage France 4F BLUE "Marianne de Gandon, born in the tumult of the Liberation of Paris” (YT 717)
- Illustrated cancellation GF Paris “Navy Show" 08 July 1945
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The order for the Marianne was placed during the liberation of Paris (August 1944), while FFI officers positioned in Gandon's workshop were firing on the Germans. The original drawing, made using the artist's wife Jacqueline Gandon as a model, would be ready for the arrival of General de Gaulle in Paris on 25 August 1944.
The first edition of the "Marianne de Gandon" was printed in 1945.
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