Académie de philatélie

The Académie de philatélie (Academy of Philately in English) is a French philatelic voluntary association created in 1928.

The Académie's emblem is the Ceres head designed by Jacques-Jean Barre for the first postage stamp of France.

On 25 May 1928, Gaston Tournier, editor-in-chief of Le Messager philatélie, launched the project of an academy whose members would be important and recognized philatelists.

The main public actions of the Académie was to militate for the creation of a French postal museum and to help constitute its collections and library.

During its private regular sessions, the members of the Académie de philatélie organise philatelic and marcophilic conferences.