30th anniversary of the death of Francis Carco

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 548   Yvert: 375   Gibbons: 528  

Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 13 ¼x13

Subject:

40 French Pacific francs.

Portrait of Francis Carco on the background of plots from his works.

On the left, presumably, the plot from his book "From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter" *

Additional:

*Francis Carco (born François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the Fantaisiste school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for L'Homme libre and Gil Blas. During World War I he became an aviation pilot at Étampes, after studying at the aviation school there.

His works are picturesque, painting as they do the street life of Montmartre, and often being written in the argot of Paris. He has been called the "romancier des apaches." His memoir, The Last Bohemia: From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter, contains reminiscences of Bohemian life in Paris during the early years of the 20th century.