The First French Empire illustrated by stamps

The philately, as we know, did not exist in the time of Napoleon, since the first stamp in the world was put into circulation by the Post Office of the United Kingdom in 1840. France, meanwhile, will wait until 1849. The stamp "Ceres" of 20 cents, created by the sculptor Jean-Jacques Barre, will be issued under Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the Second Republic.

The Napoleonic era, however, often instigated postal authorities, both French and foreign (even exotic ones), in issuing stamps commemorating events in its history, and honoring its actors.

The list below shows a number of these achievements. To complete it, do not hesitate to send us pictures of stamps you possess. We will use them with pleasure (reserving us the right to surround them by a frame), stating of course the copyright of the photo and adding, if you want it, a link to your own website.

• ALEXANDRE Ist of Russia
  1. Finnish stamp of 2009  
  2. Russian stamp of 2002  
  3. Set of russian stamps of 4 and 7 kopeks  
  4. Russian 20 kopeks stamp issued in 1915  
• André Marie AMPÈRE
  1. French stamp issued in 1936 for the centenary of his death  
• Archduke Charles of AUSTRIA
  1. Austrian stamp issued in 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Aspern-Essling  
• Marie Louise of AUTRIA
  1. 2,50 riyals stamp issued by the emirate of Ras El Khaimah  
• Pyotr Ivanovitch BAGRATION
  1. Guinea stamp commemorating the Battle of the Moskva (or Borodino) where Bagration was killed  
• François de BARBÉ-MARBOIS
  1. U.S. 3 cent stamp issued on the occasion of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the treaty of cession of Louisiana (a.k.a. Louisiana Purchase)  
• Joséphine de BEAUHARNAIS
  1. Paraguayan 0.15 Guarani stamp issued in 1971  
• Stéphanie de BEAUHARNAIS
  1. Stamp of Baden  
  2. Monaco stamp  
• Jean-Baptiste BERNADOTTE
  1. Swedish stamp issued in 1999  
• Claude-Louis BERTHOLLET
  1. French 35 francs stamp issued in 1958  
• Xavier BICHAT
  1. French 30 francs stamp issued in 1959  
• Gebhard Leberecht von BLÜCHER
  1. East German 24 pfennig stamp issued in 1953  
  2. East German 5 pfennig stamp issued in 1963, representating Blücher with General August Neidhardt von Gneisenau  
• Elisa BONAPARTE
  1. Cuban stamp of 1969  
• François-Joseph BOSIO
  1. Monaco stamp of 1968  
• Pierre-Fidèle BRETONNEAU
  1. French stamp issued in 1962 for the centenary of his death  
• Capital punishment of Georges CADOUDAL
  1. Stamp of the Bailiwick of Jersey  
• Lazare CARNOT
  1. French 10 francs stamp issued in 1950  
• Claude CHAPPE
  1. French 10 francs stamp issued in 1949  
• CHARLES IV of Spain
  1. Spanish stamp  
• François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND
  1. Stamp issued by French Post on the centenary of his death  
  2. Stamp of the Emirate of Fujeira  
  3. Monaco stamp  
  4. Stamp of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon  
• Luigi CHERUBINI
  1. Stamp of Guinea-Bissau  
  2. Hungarian stamp  
  3. Italian stamp  
• Jean Nicolas CORVISART des MARETS
  1. French 20 cents stamp issued in 1964  
• Georges CUVIER
  1. French stamp issued in 1969 for the bicentennial of the birth of this naturalist  
• Yrieix-Pierre DAUMESNIL
  1. French stamp issued in 1976 for the bicentennial of the birth of this general  
• Jacques Louis DAVID
  1. French 8 francs stamp issued in 1950  
  2. Soviet stamp  
• Louis DESAIX
  1. French stamp issued in 1968 for the bicentennial of the birth of this general  
• René-Nicolas DUFRICHE-DESGENETTES
  1. French 30 centimes stamp issued in 1972  
• FERDINAND VII of Spain
  1. Spanish stamp  
• FREDERIC-WILLIAM III of Prussia
  1. Liberian stamp of 20 dollars issued in 2000  
• André GRÉTRY
  1. Belgian stamp  
• Jean-Dominique INGRES
  1. Soviet stamp issued in 1980 for the bicentennial of his birth  
• François Etienne Christophe KELLERMANN
  1. French stamp issued in 1989 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution  
• Mikhaïl Illarionovitch KUTUZOV
  1. Russian stamp  
  2. Soviet stamp issued in 1945 to mark the bicentenary of his birth  
  3. East German 40 pfennig stamp issued in 1963, representing Kutuzov with Prussian General Gerhard von Scharnhorst  
• René LAËNNEC
  1. French 12 francs stamp issued in 1952  
• Joseph LAGRANGE
  1. French 8 francs stamp issued in 1958  
• Jean LANNES
  1. 50 cents stamp issued in France in 1969 to commemorate the bicentennial of his birth  
• Pierre Simon de LAPLACE
  1. French 30 francs stamp issued in 1950  
• Jean Dominique LARREY
  1. French 25 cents stamp issued in 1964  
• Antoine Marie Chamans de LAVALETTE (ou LAVALLETTE)
  1. French 12 + 3 francs stamp issued in 1954  
• André MASSÉNA
  1. Monaco stamp  
• Etienne MÉHUL
  1. French stamp issued in 1963 to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth  
• Bon-Adrien Jannot de MONCEY
  1. French 80 cens stamp issued in 1976  
• Gaspard MONGE
  1. French 18 francs stamp issued in 1953  
  2. French 2.5 francs stamp issued in 1990  
• NAPOLÉON Ier
  1. Set of stamps issued by the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe  
  2. French 30 francs stamp issued in 1951  
• NAPOLÉON II
  1. Monaco 1 Euro stamp issued in 2011  
• Horatio NELSON et HMS Victory
  1. British stamp  
• Giovanni PAISIELLO
  1. Italian stamp  
• PIUS VI
  1. Vatican Stamp  
• PIUS VII
  1. Vatican Stamp  
• Józef Antoni PONIATOWSKI
  1. Polish stamp  
• Jean-Etienne PORTALIS et le Code Civil
  1. French 45 cents stamp issued in 1973  
• Louise of PRUSSIA
  1. German 250 pfennig stamp issued in 1989  
• Emmanuel SIÉYÈS
  1. French stamp of 2.20 francs, issued on the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution  
• Madame de STAËL
  1. French 30 cents stamp issued in 1960  
• STENDHAL
  1. French stamp issued in 1942 to mark the centenary of the death of Henri Beyle  
• Robert SURCOUF
  1. French 12 francs stamp issued in 1951  
  2. Mauritian stamp  
• Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD
  1. French 15 francs stamp issued in 1951  
• Alessandro VOLTA
  1. Italian stamp issued on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of the physicist  
• Maria WALEWSKA
  1. Polish stamp