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Collector 4 stamps - Missak Manouchian - International Letter

Current price

9.16

Description

"Happiness to those who will survive us and taste the sweetness of tomorrow's Freedom and Peace. I am sure that the French people and all freedom fighters will know how to honor our memory with dignity." Quote from Missak Manouchian's letter to his wife Mélinée, the day before his execution. Missak Manouchian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide who was shot on February 21, 1944 at Mont-Valérien, was a poet, worker, communist activist and hero of the Resistance. Arrested with his 22 comrades-in-arms, all foreigners, he shouted to his judges during their mock trial: "You have inherited French nationality, we have earned it." His photo, along with those of other defendants, was featured on a Nazi propaganda poster denouncing their alleged crimes, and became a rallying symbol for the Resistance. The Affiche Rouge inspired Aragon to write a poem (Strophes pour se souvenir, 1955), set to music and sung by Léo Ferré (L'Affiche rouge, 1961). Through the figures of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, it is also the unconditional devotion of Armenians to France that will be celebrated, on February 21, 2024, by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and by the entire Nation at the Panthéon. S. E. Madame Hasmik Tolmajian Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to France

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Conception graphique Bruno Ghiringhelli d'après © photos Arnaud Frich/Only France.fr - Philippe Ledru/akg-images - © Archives Manouchian /Roger-Viollet

Information

Commercialisation start date

February 21, 2024

Commercialisation end date

February 28, 2026

Adherence type

Adhesive

Printing technique

Offset

Number per sheet

1

Permanent value

Yes

Face value

1.96 €

Philatelic charter family

Collector stamp

Official release date

February 21, 2024

Stamp format

148 x 210 mm

author

GHIRINGHELLI Bruno

Product number

2124907