FRANCE - 1931: An 10 francs dark blue postage stamp depicting Luxembourg Palace. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures (excepting only the unicameral National Assembly

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France. Postage stamps All this postage stamps, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 5300px × 3500px
Location: Paris, France
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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