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The Collège Royale, La Flèche

Scott B206 Scott B46 Scott B90 Scott 2047
FRANCE , 1946, Scott B206, ALGERIA, 1946, Scott B46, and TUNISIA, 1946, Scott B90
FRANCE,1987, La Flèche National Military School, Scott 2047

The Collège Royale at La Flèche, a Jesuit college, appears on several stamps honoring Guillaume Fourquet, Governor of La Flèche who gave the King Henry IV the idea of establishing a Jesuit college there. It was originally called the Collège Henri IV. Today it houses a veterans' home. Rene Descartes said of this, his alma mater, "This is where was planted the first seeds of all my later accomplishments and for which I am eternally grateful to the Society of Jesus." The church, visible in the vignette, holds the ashes of the hearts of Henry IV and the Queen Marie de Mèdici.

Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris

Scott 1065 Scott 1065 imperf 
FRANCE, 1963, 4th centenary of Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Scott 1065, and its FDI cancel

For two centuries the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris had been under the Jesuits, first as the Collège Clermont and then as Collège Louis-le-Grand in gratitude to the king for endowing it. Students came here from all levels of Society, including St. Francis de Sales, Molière and Voltaire.

St-Louis de Gonzague, Paris


1998, meter stamp from the Jesuit secondary school, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Franklin Street, Paris

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