Genesis
In October 2007, the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy asked La Poste to organize a competition at the end of whom he would choose the new definitive stamp design of France. The competition topic was "The Marianne and Europe" (La Marianne et l'Europe). Fifty-eight artists who recently designed stamps for the French postal service were invited to send their project between 26 October and 16 November 2007. Forty-one were received and brought to the President.
Nicolas Sarkozy chose the project of engraver Yves Beaujard. La Poste's president, Jean-Paul Bailly officially presented the stamp design in Paris, on 29 January 2008.
The artist told he created "a old-fashioned Marianne", "realised a very classical version of the Marianne" and to have "given movement with the haircut" and activity with different size stars put around her head. A professional engraver, he drew with the idea to convert his design into an engraving because the definitive stamps of France has been usually printed in intaglio the past decades. It was the first time since the Liberté de Gandon d'après Delacroix series that a definitive series was designed and engraved by the same artist.
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