Austerlitz bicentennial stamp to be issued

2005/12/02 Team Austerlitz Austerlitz.org | EN » Project Austerlitz » Anniversaries of the Battle

For the bicentennial of the battle of Austerlitz the Czech and the French post issue the common stamp. On May 4th 2005 the meeting of Czech and French philatelists and Napoleonic ethusiasts will take place in the Czech Centre in Paris.

The presentation of the Czech stamp will take place on the same day at 11 AM at the Peace Monument on the Pratzen Heights. The stamp will be “baptised” by the South Moravia governor Mr. Stanislav Juranek along with the representatives of the exhibition BRNO 2005 and the representative of the Mohyla Miru – Austerlitz o. p. s., the member of the board of directors Mr. Frantisek Kopecky who is also the mayor of the community of Tvarozna.

For one day the French post will open the special counter in the Czech Centre, the stamped envelope of the first day will be offered to the public, too. In the Janacek Hall of the Czech Centre the exhibition ‘Napoleon and the Imperial Epic’ will be opened in cooperation with the Visualie IDF.

Between 15 and 16 PM the event will be honoured to welcome Mr. Pavel Fischer, the Czech ambassador in France along with the baron de Menéval, president of the Souvenir Napoléonien Foundation.

On the occassion of the European stamps exhibition BRNO 2005 and the bicentennial of the battle of Austerlitz the Czech post issues the block and the stamp. The organizers of the exhibition have joined the Project Austerlitz 2005.

Below the block after the design by Zdenek Ziegler and the engraver Vaclav Fajta.

The block is intended to promote the Europan stamp exhibition BRNO 2005. It depicts the oil painting of the French painter L.-F. Lejeune from 1809 portraying the atmosphere on the night before the battle with Napoleon and his generals interrogating the Moravian peasants. The painting is currently placed in the chateau Versailles. The block carries a logo and the texts EUROPEAN STAMP EXHIBITION BRNO 2005 and NAPOLEON BEFORE THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS LEJEUNE (1775-1848). Further details can be found here.

The stamp designed by Karel Zeman was created by Jaroslav Tvrdon (see below).

The French stamp was engraved by Claude Jumelet.