France 2022 stamps picks up with the June to September sets. To see the previous months, see Wonderfully Fabulous France’s 2022 stamps. Some countries put out a large volume of stamps, so to ensure the pages load efficiently, it’s necessary to split the pages.
June
Smiley – 50th Anniversary of their Creation
12 stamps in booklet format
Created in 1972 by French journalist Franklin Loufrani to spread good news, the original Smiley brand has become one of the iconic icons of graphic design, bringing people together through a creative message that spreads positivity and emphasizes social and emotional learning. The Smiley is a universal icon of the counterculture, with a message of positivity that has influenced generations around the world. Smiley | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Designer: The Smiley Company © 1971 – 2022
Release date: June 7, 2022
Alain Resnais 1922-2014
1 stamp, sheet of 15, cancel
photogravure
Cancel: Sebastien Jarnot
Illustrator: FLOC’H
Designer: Valérie Besser
Release date: June 7, 2022
PARIS PHILEX 2022
1 stamp
offset
Issued for the 2022 Philex that runs from June 23 to 26. Let me know if you make it there. This is one of the expos I’d love to attend. It looks FABULOUS.
Events from the event:
- presence of many french and foreign traders experts in philately;
- Philaposte-La Poste will offer, at it’s exhibit, its new Premier Jour shows, special programs as well as new products 100% collection ;
- presence of the Musée de La Poste, the A.T.G. with the dedications of the stamp artists and the Academy of Philately.
- The French Philately Championship will present more than 500 executives in competition.
- Highly anticipated event: the FFAP will hold its 95e Congress and will celebrate its centenary, for which a stamp will be issued!
PARIS PHILEX 2022 from 23 to 26 June | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Designer: TBA
Release date: June 23, 2022
Centenary of the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb 1922-2022
1 stamp, sheet of 9, philatelic card, cancel
photogravure
intaglio & digital – only the card
Don’t miss the details around the edges of the sheet.
Designer: Eloïse Oddos
Release date: June 27, 2022
Sport Colour Passion
6 stamps on sheet, cancel
4th in series honouring Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. This edition honours the African continent. Previous editions featured Europe, Americas and Asia.
- Boxing
- Handball
- Sport diving
- Equestrian
- Archery
- Wheelchair tennis
Stamp designer: Sandrine Chimbaud using photos from © Sport Presse
Layout: Agence Absinthe
Release date: June 27, 2022
French Firefighters
4 stamps on a sheet
photogravure
Designer: Nicolas Blard & National Federation of Firefighters of France
Release date: June 27, 2022
150 Years of the Postcard in France
1 stamp on souvenir sheet, infosheet
Photogravure
La Poste has an interesting writeup discussing this souvenir sheet which uses a copy of the original 1872 Cérès stamp with a postmark and souvenir sheet designed like the original postcard.
The first cards circulated on January 15, 1873 and met with tremendous success: in one week, 7,412,700 copies were sold.
From 1890, the postcard became the preferred medium for correspondence. Now illustrated, it benefits from the improvement of photographic reproduction techniques, the excellence of the railway and postal network that promotes its rapid distribution, the organization of the profession with the creation of a publishers’ union in 1904 and the fact that most of the population, thanks to compulsory education, can now read and write. Between 1905 and 1914, 750 million cards were sold each year in France. The card plays the role now assigned to SMS – for the rapid transmission of short messages – to television news – for the dissemination of illustrated news – and to magazines – as a reflection of society. It remains today one of the best witnesses of the France of the Belle Époque.
50 years of the postcard in France | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr).
Postmark designer: Valérie Besser
Original Cérès image designed & engraved by Jacques-Jean Barre
Release date: June 27, 2022
You Have 12 Messages
12 stamps in booklet format, cancel
Photogravure
Each stamp is based on an original postcard:
- Affection
- Thought unites us
- My friendships
- A year of happiness
- Lucky charm
- Memory of friendship
- Happy New Year
- The flowery sailboat
- For St. Catherine
- Sincere wishes
- Saying it with flowers
- April Fool’s Day
Designer: Christelle Guénot
Release date: June 27, 2022
July
Summer vegetables
4 stamps on a recipe card
digital
Included in subscriber packages
Designer: Absinthe Agency
Release date: July 1, 2022
France Land of Tourism – Typical Habitats
8 stamps in booklet format, cancel
Photogravure
Designer: Christelle Guénot & Etienne Théry
Guénot and Théry will sign covers and stamps at Le Carré d’Encre, July 1, 2022, 10am to 5pm at 13 bis rue des Mathurins 75009 PARIS
Release date: July 4, 2022
Favorite French Village of 2021 – Sancerre – Cher
1 stamp, sheet of 12, cancel
Photogravure
Home | City Sancerre (ville-sancerre.com)
Designer: Sabine Forget
Release date: July 4, 2022
Le Tourmalet – Hautes-Pyrénées
1 stamp, sheets of 15, cancel
2 cancel locations: BAGNÈRES-DE-BIGORRE and Le Tourmalet – Hautes-Pyrénées
Designer: DOZ Creations
DOZ will sign covers at Le Carré d’Encre, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, July 8 at 13 bis rue des Mathurins 75009 PARIS
EUROMED 2022 – Underwater Archeology
1 stamp, sheet of 15, cancel, info sheet
2 cancel locations: The village, 20222 ERBALUNGA & 2 boulevard Dunkerque 13002 MARSEILLE
The image in the stamp shows a Roman empire dolia ship, La Giraglia 2, off the Cape Corsica. The ship carried large dolium, larege earthenware wine vessels.
This type of vessel was intended to transport dolia in bulk as the dolia appear to have been placed in the hold as the ship was being built. The “La Giraglia” was carrying at least eight dolia and its excavation gives insight into the ship’s design and how such vessels contributed to patterns of trade in the western Mediterranean. The cistern boat was an innovation in ship construction, intended to respond to changes in the production and transportation of wine brought about by Roman expansion. The cistern boat began being built during the Augustan Period, and continued until the 2nd century. The relatively short period of production for this ship-type suggests that there were problems with its design which caused the design to be superseded. Dolium – Dolia in Maritime Commerce – Construction of Dolia Ships | Construction Dolia Ships (liquisearch.com)
Designer: Stéphanie Ghinéa
Photographer: (c) Teddy Seguin / DRASSM
(c) Museums of Marseille / DRASSM / Almodovar – Vialle
Release date: July 11, 2022
Castle of Commequiers – Vendée
1 stamp, sheet of 15, info sheet, cancel
intaglio
Château de Commequiers was built by Louis de Beaumont in the 14th and 15th centuries. Cardinal Richelieu had the castle dismantled in 1628, leaving it in ruins.
This stamp and cancel will be sold at the castle on July 15.
Designer/engraver: André Lavergne using a photo by Francis Leroy / hemis.fr
Release date: July 18, 2022
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
1 stamp, sheet of 12, cancel, philatelic souvenir
Proust is considered one of the greats of 20th c literature.
Marcel Proust, born in Paris in 1871 and died in the same city in 1922, is one of the most famous French writers in the world, author of a novel cycle in seven volumes, In Search of Lost Time. However, success did not come easily: Marcel Proust, desperate to find a publisher who accepted his first volume, Du côté de chez Swann, ended up publishing it on his own account in 1913. In 1919, the second volume, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, won the Prix Goncourt, paving the way for success, the influence of which has continued to grow, both in France and abroad. Society of friends of Marcel Proust and friends of Combray Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922 | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Marcel Proust Biography – life, parents, death, mother, old, information, born, year (notablebiographies.com)
Six Writers on the Genius of Marcel Proust ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
Designer/engraver: Sophie Beaujard using photos held by société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray
Release date: July 25, 2022
August
My Stamp Book Tracking
9 track ‘n trace stamps in booklet format
Photogravure
Designer: La Poste
Release date: August 1, 2022
The Fish Route
8 stamps on a collector sheet
This stamp will be released in time for the September 17 and 18, 2022 Draught Horse race.
The Fish Route, the race event of the draft horse is 300 km, from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Paris, 6 days of competition, 24 hours of relay race, 20 teams, 440 horses and 1400 participants. Collector The Fish Route | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Designer: Huitième-Jour
Artist: Alain Bouldouyre
Release date: August 26, 2022
September
Council of Europe – Gender equality
1 stamp, sheet of 15, cancel
digital
Designer: Bruno Ghiringhelli using Igor Dukic’s work.
Bosnian artist Dukic is now based in the US.
For me, making art is a spiritual practice. I create from a place of no mind–from inner stillness.
I do all my sketches in full-color on the computer. Then, I use a projector and acrylic paint to recreate my sketches on the canvas.
About — igor dukic
Release date: September 5, 2022
Masterpieces of art – close-up views
12 stamps in booklet format
First Row
- Delacroix – La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Musée Du Louvre) / Michel Utardo
- Da Vinci – The Mona Lisa (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Michel Urtado
- Cézanne – Card Players (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Musée D’orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
- Ingres – La Grande Odalisque (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Thierry Le Mage
- David – Les Sabines (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Daniel Arnaudet / Christian Jean
Second Row:
- Watteau – Pierrot (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Franck Raux
- Clouet – François 1st, King Of France (Detail) ©Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski
- Rubens – Hélène Froment And Her Children (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski
- Arcimboldo – Spring (Detail) © Rmngrand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
- Renoir – Young Girls At The Piano (Detail) ©Rmn-Grand Palais (Musée D’orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
- The Tower – Portrait of The Marquise De Pompadour (Detail) © Rmn-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) / Gérard Blot
Designer: Etienne Théry
Théry will sign covers at Le Carré d’Encre, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, September 2nd at 13 bis rue des Mathurins 75009 PARIS
Release date: September 5, 2022
Heritage of France
4th in series
10 stamps, cancel
intaglio
- Sports
- Science and technology
- History of France
- Architectural heritage
Designer: Sarah Bougaut
Release date: September 5, 2022
50 years of UNESCO World Heritage
1 stamp, sheets of 15
digital
Designer: Mathilde Laurent
Photographer: © Manuel Cohen / Aurimages
Release date: September 12, 2022
The Petit Louvre – Loire
1 stamp, cancel, sheet of 15
Photogravure
The Petit Louvre in La Pacaudière (lesamisdupetitlouvre.fr)
Creation: Thierry Dubois
Designer: Sylvie Patte and Tanguy Besset
Release date: September 12, 2022
Françoise Pétrovitch
1 stamp, cancel
offset
Designer/artist: Françoise Pétrovitch
Release date: September 12, 2022
The Familistère of Guise – Aisne
1 stamp, cancel, sheets of 15
intaglio
The Familistère de Guise or “Social Palace” is a concrete utopia inspired by the phalanstery, the dream of Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Its designer is a former self-taught locksmith worker, who becomes a brilliant captain of industry, an enthusiastic Fourierist and an outstanding builder. Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-1888) created in 1840 a factory of cast iron stoves and stoves, he laid the first brick of the Familistère in 1858 and he founded in 1880 the Cooperative Association of Capital and Labour, in which the workers are collectively owners of the Familistère and its manufactures. It is a question of setting a successful example of an alternative to the economic and social organization of capitalist society. The Familistère de Guise – Aisne | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Engraver/Designer: Line Filhon
Cancel designer: Sandrine Chimbaud
Release date: September 19, 2022
Earth & People “The Earth provides our energy, let’s protect it”
4 stamps, cancel
Designer: David Lanaspa
Release date: September 19, 2022
Guide dogs for the blind
1 stamp, sheet of 15, cancel
2 cancels locations: Limonges & Cerney
Designer: Huitième-Jour
Release date: September 26, 2022
October
Coppersmith / Dinandier
Series: Craftsman Métiers d’Art
1 stamp, sheet of 12, cancel, philatelic souvenir
intaglio
Copperware was born in the Middle Ages, its name comes from the “metal beaters” of Dinant in Belgium, where many workshops were established processing mainly brass. At that time, coppersmiths created liturgical objects and everyday objects. Today, coppersmithing is a profession that oscillates between traditional boilermaking, goldsmithing and sculpture. Coppersmith| INMA – Institut National des métiers d’art (institut-metiersdart.org)
This series began in 2016. Previous stamps featured:
- stone sculptor
- jeweler
- ironworker
- cabinetmaker
- leather goods manufacturer
- crystal tailor
- bookbinder
- organ builder,
- metal engraver
- tained glass artist
- plumassier
- luthier
Designer/engraver: Elsa Catelin
Release date: October 3, 2022
Frédéric Passy (1822 – 1912) – the Apostle of Peace
1 stamp, cancel, sheet of 15
intaglio
Economist and peace activist. Winner of 1901 Nobel Peace Prize “for his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration”
Frédéric Passy – Biographical – NobelPrize.org.
Designer: Ségolène Derudder
Engraver: Pierre Albuisson
Release date: October 7, 2022
Naruto
1 stamp, sheet of 10
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Naruto premiering in France.
Creator: Masashi Kishimoto
Designer: Valérie Besser
Release date: October 10, 2022
Ada LOVELACE 1815 – 1952 computer pioneer
1 stamp, cancel
Photogravure
The First Computer Programmer (codecademy.com)
At a very young age, she began studying mathematics. [Rising} to a level sufficient to appreciate the work of a talented inventor, Charles Babbage. He has just developed an automatic calculator.
Ada looks at these complex cogs and an intuition comes to her: what if, instead of handling only numbers, this machine also dealt with symbols? She puts her intuition to the clean: it will be the famous “Note G”, published in 1843, the first computer program in the world.
Ada will never know she was awesome. She died at the age of 36 on November 27, 1852. Almost a century later, an American physicist named Howard Aiken made a machine from Babbage’s gears and Ada Lovelace’s notes: the Mark I. This one will have a large number of descendants: computers. In 1978, the NEW COMPUTER LANGUAGE OF THE US Department of Defense was named Ada. Ada Lovelace finally ceases to be just a footnote in her father’s biographies.
Ada was a strong advocate of the idea of “poetic science.” Fusing science and poetry within the same vision, she dreamed of a machine that would be able to speak previously unknown languages. She imagined computing, she pulled it out of nothingness at a time when our modernity was barely awakening. His work, a fragile flower hatched in the mists of Romanticism, rose like a sun on the second half of the XXe century and illuminates the third millennium. By giving shape to our future, Ada Lovelace has marked our civilization as much as Pasteur, Einstein or Fleming. Ada Lovelace or the Beauty of Numbers Catherine Dufour
Designer: Patte & Besset
Sylvie Patte and Tanguy Besset – Art of engraved stamp (artdutimbregrave.com)
Release date: October 12, 2022
Lacs de la Forêt d’Orient – Aube
1 stamp, cancel, sheet of 15
photogravure
Lakes of the Forêt d’Orient is 70000 hectares national park located 2 hours north of Paris. Things to do around the lakes of the Forêt d’Orient | Aube en Champagne (aube-champagne.com)
Designer: Lil Sire
Illustrateur Designer Textile Illustrations Motifs | France | Lil Sire
Pekelo
Release date: October 14, 2022
50 Years Gallimard Jeunesse
4 stamps in booklet
offset
Children’s printing house Gallimard Jeunesse was formed in 1972. Gallimard Jeunesse : Children’s books | Gallimard Youth (gallimard-jeunesse.fr)
Designer: Huitième-Jour
Release date: October 21, 2022
French Red Cross – International humanitarian law
3 stamps on a sheet, cancel
Photogravure
Designer: Boris Séméniako
Release date: October 24, 2022
Mende – Lozère
1 stamp, sheet of 12, cancel
Intaglio
Designer/engraver: Christophe Laborde-Balen using photos © city of Mende and courtyard of the Museum © Architecture workshop Emmanuel Nebout
Cancel: Mathilda Lauren
Release date: October 24, 2022
November
Autumn Philatelic Show
The annual Autumn Philatelic show ran from November 3 to 5, 2022 and held at the Espace Champerret Hall A 6, rue Jean Ostreicher 75017 Paris. A number of limited-edition prints were release for the show.
Laurens Peace Block 1932-2022 by Sylvie PATTE and Tanguy BESSET
Typography
Salon d’automne poster “View of Paris”
Designer/engraver: Albert DECARIS
Illustrator: Jacques COMBET
Layout: Stéphane HUMBERT-BASSET
intaglio
Letter card Cameo sowing
Louis-Oscar ROTY – Stamp engraving: Jean-Baptiste LHOMME
Typography
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Souvenir Ticket front and back
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Souvenir of 2021’s Most Beautiful Stamp “The Kid“
Designer: Stéphane Humbert-Basset
Engraver: Pierre Bara
Digital
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Gandon’s Freedom stamps and cover
Designer/engraver: Pierre GANDON
Layout: Ségolène CARRON
Intaglio______
CNEP Block – Jacque Cartier
CNEP Block – Gare d’Orsay
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Vignette LISA
Vignette LISA 2
A number of souvenir stamp jigsaw puzzles were available for sale as well.
Release date: November 3 – 5, 2022
Raymond Devos 1922 – 2006
1 stamp, sheet of 15, cancel
Humourist and magician Home – Raymond Devos Foundation (raymond-devos.org)
Designer: Mathieu Persan
Release date: November 7, 2022
Les Grandes Heures de l’Histoire de France Louis XV 1710-1774 – Marie Leszczynska 1703-1768
2 stamps on souvenir sheet, Philatelic remembrance (souvenir folder), cancel
intaglio
Portions of this stamp were printed with gold ink
Two images, from paintings by Michel Van Loo, Marie Leszczynska oil on canvas held by National Museum Stockholm (c) Fine Artimages/Leemage and Louis XV, Chalons en Champagne held by the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology (c) Photo Josse/Leemage
Background image used photos by stamp designer Benjamin Van Blancke.
Catherine Curzon: The Marriage of Marie Leszczyńska and Louis XV (madamegilflurt.com)
Marie Leszczynska | Palace of Versailles (chateauversailles.fr) and Louis XV | Palace of Versailles (chateauversailles.fr) are excellent, and approachable biographies on both. A good starting point for anyone unfamiliar with French history.
Designer: Benjamin Van Blancke
Engraver: Pierre Bara
Release date: November 7, 2022
Dewoitine D1 Fighter 1923
1 stamp, 1 sheet of 12, sheet of 10, cancel
offset/intaglio
This stamp and cancel used the illustrations by Arthur Thomas, official Air and Space painter (Ministry of the Armed Forces)
Émile Dewoitine
Émile Dewoitine formed his own French aircraft firm in October 1920 and went on to design a number of successful fighter aircraft between the war years (1920 to 1939), The D1 was the first one to roll off the manufacture lines in 1922. Unlike earlier aircraft, this monoplane’s fuselage was constructed with a steel skin while the single wing was made of the more traditional fabric and dope covering.
It was 7.50 m (24 ft 7.25 in) long with a wingspan of 11.50 m (37 ft 8.75 in). It was armed with 2 synchronised Vickers machine guns that fired through the propeller (as most did during WW1). It could reach up to 255 km/h (158 mph, 137 kn), with a range of 400 km (250 miles) and capable of climbing to 8000 m (26,245 feet).
Dewoitine D1 Fighter
Designer: Arthur Thomas
Layout: Bruno Ghiringhelli
Engraver: Claude Jumelet
Release date: November 7, 2022
Collection Louis XV
Series: Playing Cards Collection
12 stamps in booklet
Photogravure
Original whist cards by Grimaud
“For more than 150 years, Grimaud has been creating and producing traditional playing cards, perpetuating the tradition and know-how of master cartiers” Playing cards “Collection Louis XV” | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)
Designer: Cartamundi
Release date: November 7, 2022
Christmas – My Book of Fairy Tale Stamps
12 stamps in booklet
Photogravure
Designer: BETC
Release date: November 7, 2022
You can see all the 2021 stamps from France in two articles – France’s 2021 stamps – Jan to June and France 2021 philately July to Dec. Leave a comment and let me know which are your favourite stamps.
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