Marianne du 14 Juillet series

Marianne du 14 Juillet is a definitive stamp series issued in France between 14 July 1997 and 2005.

It was designed by Ève Luquet and engraved by Claude Jumelet.

The stamp represents Marianne, allegory of the French Republic, wearing as usual a tricolor cockade, and the Phrygian cap.

Finally chosen by President Jacques Chirac after a competition, the design was better received than the Marianne du Bicentenaire series, often judged as a dead face with its empty eyes.

They can be used in Metropolitan France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, and overprinted for use in Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.