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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. 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 Albrecht Rodenbach (27 October 1856 - 23 June 1880) was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th Century. He is more noteworthy as a symbol of the Flemish movement, than for his actual activities, since he died at the age of 23. Hugo Verriest called Rodenbach the poet, the soul, the heart, the mind, the word of Reborn Flanders! |
| Face value | 20 + 5 Centimes |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1057 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BE B599 Yvert et Tellier BE 1013 Stanley Gibbons BE 1604 AFA number BE 1075 Belgium BE 1013 Unificato BE 1013 |
| Stamp colour | blue violet |
| Stamp use | Semi Postal stamp |
| Print run | 1.281.619 |
| Issue date | 08/06/1957 |
| Designer | Edouard Meert / Jean Malvaux |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 27.00 mm |
| Width | 39.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
