MARÉCHAL DE MATIGNON

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MARÉCHAL DE MATIGNON

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:21 am

Monaco issued one stamp in 2017 to honour Maréchal de Matignon a mayor of Bordeaux, with on the right a print showing Bordeaux from the Garonne River around the 15th century with in the foreground in the river all kind of shipping of that time.

Bordeaux was at that time under British Government control and was a large export port for wine to the U.K. But it stopped during the Hundred Years War between France and England. In 1453 after the Battle of Castillon in which the France captured Bordeaux, Bordeaux lost all her trade with England.
When Louis XI came in power the wine trade improved again and foreigners returned back in Bordeaux. A neighbourhood outside the city, district of the Carthusians took over the wine trade with their ships the next 200 years.

Jacques II de Goyon, the lord of Matignon, was Marshal of France and Mayor of Bordeaux from 1585 to 1597, a position he inherited from his friend Michel de Montaigne. One of his descendants, Jacques Goyon de Matignon, Count of Torigni, became a prince of Monaco under the title Jacques I after his marriage to Louise-Hippolyte of Monaco in 1715. H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco will travel to Bordeaux on 5 July 2017.

Monaco 2017 2.20 Euro sg?, scott?
Source: Jean-Louis Araigon. Monaco Post. http://www.vins-bordeaux-negoce.com/le-negoce/histoire/
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