FRANCE - 1955 October 15: An 25 francs orange-brown and red-brown postage stamp depicting a fragment of the fortifications of the Brouage citadel (Charente-Maritime). Brouage was founded in 1555 by Jacques de Pons on the Bay of Biscay facing the Atlantic Ocean. The town was founded on swampy land which had previously been underwater. Its name, "Brouage", comes from the surrounding mixture of water and clay, which was called "broue". The town was fortified between 1630 and 1640 by Cardinal Richelieu as a Catholic bastion in order to fight against the neighbouring Protestant town of La Rochelle

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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: Charente-Maritime, France
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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