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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of France.
Background
Pre-stamp mail
Postal reform
First stamps
The Ceres stamps were the first postage stamp series of France issued on 1 January 1849 during the Second French Republic.[1] Six denominations were produced between 1849 and 1850, where the effigy of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, was a representation of the French Republic.