FRANCE

FRANCE.

Landscapes.
The New Royan (Charente-Maritime).
Third stamp in a set of 6, issued on 05.06.1954.
Face value: 10 French francs.
Design: André-Spitz (1883-1977).
Engraving: Pierre Munier (1889-1962).
Printing: Recess.
Print: 110.090,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1016.
- Michel No. 1006.
- Scott No. 721.
- StampWorld No. 999.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1207.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 978.

Royan is a commune and town in the south-west of France, in the department of Charente-Maritime, located on the peninsula of Arvert, at the mouth of the Gironde estuary on its eastern shore. Capital of the Côte de Beauté, Royan is one of the main French Atlantic coastal resort towns, and has five beaches, a marina for over 1,000 boats, and an active fishing port. The town had 18,499 inhabitants in 2018. Allied bombing between September 1944 and April 1945 destroyed the town. Known then as the “martyred city”, it was declared a “Laboratory of research on urbanism”, and it is now a showcase of the Modern architecture of the 1950s. It was classified as a Town of Art and History (Ville d'Art et d'Histoire) in 2010.