Career
After a first day sale at the Paris Salon du timbre stamp show in June 2008, the first thirteen values were nationwide issued in gummed version and self-adhesive for the three main rates, on 1 July 2008, the first day of the six month Presidency of the Council of the European Union by France. Two twelve self-adhesive stamp booklets (with six Marianne stamps and two times tree designed by Beaujard on the "values of Europe": Democracy, Environment and Peace.
During the same stamp show, a five euro silver Marianne et l'Europe stamp was issued, with postal validity.
In September 2008, alongside a new offer targeting firm and companies, La Poste issued all Marianne et l'Europe denominations in form of self-adhesive stamps, sold in indivisible sheet of one hundred stamps or coil of three hundred.
Read more about this topic: Marianne Et L'Europe Series
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)