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.
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. While Voltaire turned out to be an inveterate opponent of the Catholic Church, he felt deep gratitude to the end of his days to the Jesuits who had educated him at Louis le Grand from 1704-1711. This is what he said about them: "I was educated for seven years by men who took unrewarded and indefatigable pains to form the minds and morals of youth. Is it credible that anyone should fail to have some feeling of gratitude towards such teachers."
1998, meter stamp from the Jesuit secondary school, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Franklin Street, Paris
