COVER N. 757 - FRANCE

Postmark: 58 Clamecy Nièvre  11.08.2026

Posted on the 11th August;  Received on the 14th August 2026

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Another example of this year's EUROPA common design stamp, this time from France. 

Un gros Merci, Jean-Pierre.

Even though it is always a pleasure to receive mail with EUROPA  stamps on the envelopes, I would much prefer that PostEurope would have kept to the usual common theme instead of the common design approach.

Anyway, as my father used to say, "não vale a pena chorar sobre o leite derramado" (it is useless to cry over spilled milk) and I might as well forget my pains and concentrate on the half-full side of the bottle, to note how well the colourful printed selvedge goes with the equally colourful composition that serves as common design for this year's issue, in the French iteration of the stamp.

As usual with Jean-Pierre's covers, the postmark was applied at Clamecy, a town with a population of about 3600 inhabitants, part of the Nièvre Department, in Central France.