Sent: 14.01.2020
Received 28.01.2020
Travel time: 14 days
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0379 Easter photo received in envelope from France
Sent: 24.03.2020
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Sunday, 5 April 2020
0347 La Tour Eiffel - Paris, France
Sent: 30.01.2020
Recieved: 03.02.2020
Travel time: 4 days
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Friday, 11 January 2019
0212 Portugal Lisbon postcrossing meeting card sent from France
Sent: 31.12.2018
Received 07.01.2019
Travel time 8 days
Sender Michelle Bondesan from France.
Received 07.01.2019
Travel time 8 days
Sender Michelle Bondesan from France.
Monday, 7 January 2019
0195 Column of the Goddess - Lille - historical & touristic card
Sent : 31.12.2018
Received 07.01.2019
Travel time 8 days
Sender Marianne via Postcrossing, merci! :)
It is about a monument: French name : La colonne Lilloise (meaning - column of the Goddess).
Wiki: The Column of the Goddess is the popular name given by the
citizens of Lille (France) to the Memorial of the Siege of 1792. The memorial
is still in the center of the Grand′ Place (central square) of Lille, and has
been surrounded by a fountain since around 1990.
The siege of September 1792 was one of the many battles
fought during the French Revolutionary Wars and considered a major event in the
city's history by its inhabitants, despite its relatively low military
significance on a wider scale.
A few months earlier, in April 1792, French forces in the
same area did not conduct themselves well - fleeing after a skirmish with
Austrian forces and afterwards killing their own commander, Théobald Dillon.
This might have made the Austrians expect an easy victory, which as it turned
out was not the case.
An Austrian army of 20,000 men besieged the city of
Lille.[3] Then the city was attacked by Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. For
nine days and nights, the Austrians bombarded the city without intermission,
but had ultimately to raise the siege, faced with the determined resistance of
the citizens, led by Mayor François André. The Austrians destroyed many houses
and the main church (Saint-Etienne) of the city, which was on the Grand′ Place
(today the Place du Général de Gaulle). "The siege of Lille in 1792 was,
from a purely military perspective, not a significant event. It is clear that
contemporaries sought to exaggerate both the scale and the importance of the
Austrian attack on Lille.
More info (in French) :
http://archives.lille.fr/Document-du-moment/p325/1792-Lille-a-bien-merite-de-la-Patrie
Saturday, 10 March 2018
0127 France Flag of country FOTW73
Sent : 27.09.2016
Received: 03.10.2016
Travel time 6 days
Sender: myself
The flag of France (French: Drapeau français) is a tricolour
flag featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red.
It is known to English speakers as the French Tricolour or simply the Tricolour
(French: Tricolore). The Tricolour has become one of the most influential flags
in history, with its three-colour scheme being copied by many other nations,
both in Europe and the rest of the world.
The royal government used many flags, the best known being a
blue shield and gold fleur-de-lis (the Royal Arms of France) on a white
background, or state flag. Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia,
which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille, wore a cockade of
blue and red,[citation needed] the city's traditional colours. According to
French general Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, white was the
"ancient French colour" and was added to the militia cockade to
create a tricolour, or national, cockade. This cockade became part of the
uniform of the National Guard, which succeeded the militia and was commanded by
Lafayette.[citation needed] The colours and design of the cockade are the basis
of the Tricolour flag, adopted in 1790.[citation needed] The only difference
was that the 1790 flag's colours were reversed. A modified design by
Jacques-Louis David was adopted in 1794. The royal white flag was used during
the Bourbon restoration from 1815 to 1830; the tricolour was brought back after
the July Revolution and has been used ever since 1830.
Thursday, 1 March 2018
France La Poste Mailbox
Info from wikipedia.; the original site don't offer also English version.
La Poste is a postal service company in France,
operating in Metropolitan France as well as in the five French overseas
departments and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Because
of bilateral agreements, La Poste also has the responsibility of mail services
in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company
Correos.
The company was created in 1991 following the
split of the French PTT, a government department responsible for mail,
telegraph and telephone services in France. The PTT, founded in 1879, were then
divided between La Poste, which became responsible for postal service, and
France Télécom (nowadays Orange) for the telecommunication services. France
Télécom was immediately privatised but La Poste has remained a public company.
However, because of EU directives requiring member states to introduce competition
in their postal service, the French government allowed private postal service
companies in 2005 and transformed La Poste into a public-owned company limited
by shares in 2010.
Photo made in May 2017 in Paris Banlieue
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