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| General Description : | Charles Plisnier (1896 – 1952) was a Belgian writer from Wallonia. He was a Communist in his youth and briefly belonged to the Trotskyist movement in the late 1920s. He disavowed communism, and became a Roman Catholic, remaining nevertheless a Marxist. He turned to literature, writing family sagas against bourgeois society. Mariages (1936; "Nothing to Chance") deals with the limitations of social conventions; the five-volume Meurtres (1939–41; "Murders") centres on an idealistic tragic hero, Noël Annequin, in his fight against hypocrisy.[1] In 1937, he won the Prix Goncourt for Faux passeports, short stories denouncing Stalinism, in the same spirit as Arthur Koestler. He was the first foreigner to receive Prix Goncourt. He was also a Walloon movement activist and at the end of the Walloon National Congress there was a standing ovation after his speech, the assembly then singing La Marseillaise. |
| Face value | 1 Franc |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1482 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 692 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 1426 Stanley Gibbons BE 2029 AFA number BE 1507 Belgium BE 1426 Unificato BE 1426 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 4.500.000 |
| Issue date | 02/09/1967 |
| Designer | Oscar Bonnevalle |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 39.00 mm |
| Width | 28.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
