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Paleontology related stamps (dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, paleontologists, contributor to Paleontology science etc.)

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France, officially the French Republic, is a unitary sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European part of France, called metropolitan France, extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and has a total population of 66.6 million. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of France establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.

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Philately: The first stamps of France were issued on 1 January 1849.  In last years  issue France over 200 (!) stamps every year.    
Sometimes imperforated French are offered by some dealers, especially in Internet. These stamps are printed in very small quantities and offered to the authorities (Postmaster General, Minister's office, prefects, designer of stamp, etc.). And sometimes these authorities sell them to traders who, themselves, sell them to collectors. These imperforated "stamps" are not valid for postage and can not be used for franking letters.

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14.11.1949  "Famous persons" [1]  15.06.1957  "Famous persons" [2]  10-17.05.1969  "Famous persons" [3] 
Georges Buffon among some other famous personalities on stamps of France 1949 Bernard Palissy among some other famous personalities on stamps of France 1949 Georges Cuvier among some other famous personalities on stamps of France 1949
15.10.1977 "100 anniversary of Abbe Breuil" [4] 23.05.1981 "100 anniversary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin " [5] 20.6.1992"Tautavel Man"
Abbe Breuil on stamp of France 1977 Abbe Breuil on stamp of France 1981 Tautavel Man on stamp of France 1992
05.06.1993 "Bicentennial of Natural History Museum" [6] 17.06.2000 "Natural History Museum" [6] 21.08.2008 "Prehistoric animals"
Bicentennial of Natural History Museum on stamp of France 1993 Allosaurus dinosaur on Natural History Museum stamps of France 2000 prehistoric animals on stamps of France 2008
01.06.2010 "Institute of Human Paleontology"  [7]04.01.2014 "Dynamic" [8] 05.01.2018 "Works of Nature"
Institute of Human Paleontology in stamp of France 2010 Ammonite on dynamic stamps of France 2014 Helminthoides Flysch on works of nature stamps of France 2018




Notes:
Georges Buffon on stamp of France 1949 [1]  Georges Buffon (1709-1788) depicted on stamp with face value of 12+4F  He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology, zoological geography, and animal psychology. He realized both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties. Although his cosmogony was inadequate and his theory of animal reproduction was weak, and although he did not understand the problem of classification, he did establish the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked.Buffon is considered the founder of evolutionary theory. George Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his "Histoire Naturelle".Buffon objected to the so-called "artificial" classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus linnaeus, stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind.

Bernard Palissy on stamp of France 1957 [2] Bernard Palissy (1510–1589) depicted on stamp with face value of 12+3F.who was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. In the 19th-century, Palissy's pottery became the inspiration for Mintons Ltd's Victorian majolica, which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 under the name "Palissy ware".Palissy is known for his contributions to the natural sciences, and is famous for discovering principles of geology, hydrology and fossil formation.He was one of the first Europeans to enunciate the correct theory of the origin of fossils Palissy correctly maintained that fossils were the remains of once living organisms, and contested the prevailing view that they had been produced by the biblical flood, or by astrological influence. He argued that minerals, dissolving into water to form "congelative water," would precipitate and thereby petrify once living organisms in order to create fossils.

Georges Cuvier on stamp of France 1969[3]  Some catalogs listed these 3 stamps as a set, some other as individual stamps.  Pink stamp shows  Georges Cuvier (1769-1852), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is the Le Rgne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingdom).  In 1800, Cuvier was the first to correctly identify in print, working only from a drawing, a fossil found in Bavaria as a small flying reptile, which he named the Ptero-Dactyle in 1809 (later Latinized as Pterodactylus antiquus)--the first known member of the diverse order of pterosaurs. In 1808 Cuvier identified a fossil found in Maastricht as giant marine lizard, which he named Mosasaurus, the first known mosasaur. Cuvier speculated that there had been a time when reptiles rather than mammals had been the dominant fauna.

 [4]  Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (1877-1961) , often referred to as Abbe Breuil, was a French archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, China with Teilhard de Chardin, Ethiopia, Somaliland and especially Southern Africa. 

[5] Pierre Teilhard de Chadrin (1881-1955)  was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. Some of his ideas came into conflict with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and several of his books were censured.
From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard worked in the paleontology laboratory of the Muse National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Paris, studying the mammals of the middle Tertiary period. Later he studied elsewhere in Europe.

[6]
Natural History Museum in Paris is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world, has very big fossils collection of prehistoric humand and prehistoric animals, include dinosaurs. On them depicted on stamp from 2000.

[7] joint issue with Monaco
Institute of Human Paleontology on joint issue France and Monaco


Ammonite on stamp of France 2014 [8] On January 6, 2014 Post Authority of France issued a booklet of 12 self adhesive stamps  with permanent validity and costs of the domestic  priority letter up to 20 gr.  Dynamic lines, swirling movement of life, in nature, in construction, in craft in art . The booklet  highlights the mystery of motion, especially that of the spiral.  One of these stamp is depicted an ammonite.
"Ammonites were free-swimming molluscs of the ancient oceans, living around the same time that the dinosaurs walked the Earth and disappearing during the same extinction event. They came in a range of sizes, from tiny species only a couple of centimetres across, to large ones reaching over two metres in diameter. The animal would have lived in the last and largest of a chain of spiralled chambers. Filling these chambers with fluid or gas allowed the ammonite to sink like a stone to avoid predators, though ammonite shells with toothmarks on them have been found, evidence that it didn't always work. Fossilised shells are usually, but not always, beautiful spirals." BBC



Personalized stamps
There are a list of only some personalized stamps issued in France
11.05.2008  xx.xx.2010 23.11.2011
Plesiosaur on personalized stamp of France 2008 Prehistoric museum of Quinsion on personalized stamp of France 2010 Neanderthal skull female at St.-Césaire in the Department of Charente-Maritime on personalized stamp of France 2011
09.12.2014 19.05.2016 02.02.2018 "150 anniversary since death of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes"
Saturini Garimond and dinosaur on personalized stamp of France 2014 Dinosaur fossils on personalized stamp of France 2016 Flint tools and its discover Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes on personalized stamp of France 2018


Another stamps to consider
Cave painting of prehistoric animals
13.04.1969 "Cave painting of Lascaux cave" 17.01.1978 "Zodiac" [A1]
17.07.1979 "Tourism"
Cave painting of prehistoric animals on stamp of France 1968 Cave painting of prehistoric animals on stamp of France 1968 Cave painting of prehistoric animals on stamp of France 1968
12.01.1981 "Historical Constructions" [A2] 27.05.2006 "50 years since discovery of cave painting of prehistoric animals of Grotte de Rouffignac"
Cave painting of prehistoric animals on stamp of France 1968 Cave painting of prehistoric animals on stamp of France 1968

Notes:
Ammonite on Zodiac stamp of France 1977  [A1] During 1977 and 1978 (01.04.1977,  17.01.1978, 01.07.1978) Post of France issued a set Zodiac definitive stamps. Each time 4 stamps are printed.  Ammonite depicted on the right buttom corner of  the Crab stamp.

  [A2] Part of  set of 4 stamps    



Acknowledge:  Many thanks to Dominique Robillard  for his help and very valuable feedback.

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