Anatole Hulot

Anatole Auguste[1] Hulot (born 1811 in Le Mans[2] – 22 December 1891)[3] was a French civil servant who directed the designing and printing of the first postage stamps of France between 1848 and 1876.

[4] Worse, after Jacques-Jean Barre died in 1855, he didn't succeed to work with his son and new general engraver, Désiré-Albert and they end their association in August 1866.

[5] But their conflict continued next Autumn until the Commission of Mint and Medals decided that Barre son had to re-engrave a laurel-crowned Napoleon III hallmark.

During the Siege of Paris by German armies in 1870, Houlot printed again Ceres stamps on order of the new republican government.

[8] The Banque de France's printing plant in Hauteville street won the contract beginning on 31 December 1875 with a price of 47 centimes for a thousand stamps.