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Bordeaux

Functions

Locale of Post Office discovery

Summary

Bordeaux lies many miles inland from the sea on the river Garonne in the south-west of France. Its port, Port Saint-Jean, was one of the busiest commercial ports in France in the nineteenth century. The area is one of the largest wine producing regions in the world. More than half of the known specimens of the "Post Office" stamps were found here.

Details

Events

1864 - 1869

Madame Borchard found 13 of the known specimens of the "Post Office" stamps in Bordeaux among her husband's business correspondence.

1902

Three "Post Office" stamps found in Bordeaux on two letters addressed to the firm of Ducau and Lurguie by a local schoolboy, supposedly when searching through the firm's correspondence.

Prepared by: Helen Morgan

Related Subjects

Related Cultural Artefacts

• Mauritius, Post Office Stamps (1847)

Related People

• Borchard, Adolphe (c. 1816 - 1869)
• Borchard, Madame (c. 1827 - )
• Desbois, Marie (c. 1815 - 1912)
• Ducau and Lurguie
• The French Schoolboy
• Lalanne, Émile

Related Stamps

• Post Office Mauritius (01/02), one penny, used (I) + two pence, used (II) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (03), two pence, unused (III) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (06), two pence, unused (VI) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (07), one penny, used (VII) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (08), one penny, unused (VIII) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (09), two pence, used (IX) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (10), one penny, unused (X) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (11), one penny, used (XI) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (12), two pence, used (XII) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (13), two pence, used (XIII) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (14), two pence, unused (XIV) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (16), one penny, used (XVI) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (21/22), one penny, used (XXI) + two pence, used (XXII) (1847)
• Post Office Mauritius (23), two pence, used (XXIII) (1847)

Bibliography

Books

• Bachelier, L., Histoire du commerce de Bordeaux depuis les temps plus reculés jusqu’a nos jours, P. Chaumas, Bordeaux, 1863. [ Details... ]
• Charles, Albert, La Révolution de 1848 et la seconde république: A Bordeaux et dans le département de la Gironde, Éditions Delmas, Bordeaux, 1945. [ Details... ]
• Gradis, Henry, Histoire de Bordeaux, Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1888. [ Details... ]
• Higounet, Charles, Histoire de Bordeaux, Univers de la France et des pays francophones, Toulouse, 1980. [ Details... ]
• Perrein, Paul, Images d’autrefois de Bordeaux et de la Gironde, Pierre Fanlac, Périgueux, 1984. [ Details... ]
• Rèche, Albert, Dix siècles de vie quotidienne à Bordeaux, Seghers, Paris, 1983. [ Details... ]

Images

Title

BORDEAUX. - Cours du Pavé-des-Chartrons. - C. B 58

Type

Postcard

Repository

Private hands (Helen Morgan)

Details

Title

BORDEAUX - Quai et Port Saint Jean 45

Type

Postcard

Repository

Private hands (Helen Morgan)

Details

Title

Le port; Vue générale BORDEAUX 24

Type

Postcard

Repository

Private hands (Helen Morgan)

Details

Title

Quai des Chartrons, 26-27

Type

Photograph

Date

2003

Creator

Helen Morgan

Details

Created: 16 March 2006, Last modified: 19 August 2006

Copyright © Helen Morgan 2006-09

Published by Helen Morgan, August 2006
Copyright © Helen Morgan 2006
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Updated: 27 November 2008