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The legendary liner France

May 11, 1960 the transatlantic liner France was launched. The National Maritime Museum has a fine exhibition on the legendary ocean liner, from February 9 to 23 October 2011 in Paris. We remember the issuance of a postage stamp in 2002 in a sheet devoted transport, Century over stamp. There was the issue before 1962, the liner France. The site rêvedeFrance.com shows more than 60 envelopes.

Le France, issued March 25, 2002 (YT No. 3473).

V. Besser / JM. Chourgnoz Distribution Lines and TM French

JP. Cousin / ITVF Post.

Century over the stamps, transport,

2 x 5 stamps on this theme.

ITVF Post.

The steamer France, from January 13, 1962.

Claude Hertenberger / Post.

exposure
the National Maritime Museum.

The site of the exhibition states:

" For the first time, a major retrospective traces his career and France revived the style with the presentation of its decorations and furniture of the most emblematic. This giant of the seas that closes a century of market competition on transatlantic routes, in a race to ever greater, more comfortable and faster still, says the dreams of an entire era, that of post-war boom. It also tells of a industrial venture which committed the whole country and a lifestyle to which he was the French ambassador sea " .

The six letters of steamship.

The dream in computer graphics:

proposed new liner France in 2015, wanted by D. Spade.

View
The launch of France and General de Gaulle's speech on ina.fr
The National Museum of Marine

The web-TV about the event Paquepot France, exposure
The story of a ship on RêvedeFrance.com with 3,000 pages depicting the life of the liner
Ship France, the last of the giants , on France Culture
The new liner France on ReconstruireleFrance.com
The liner France on Philateliemarine.fr
The liner Normandie, the site My letters traveled the world
Centennial the Titanic, a note from January 15, 2011
The ship Dominion Monarch a note of September 9, 2010