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10 Vaillants
| Issuer | Cœurs Vaillants |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on white stock; a radiant white cross occupies the central vignette, flanked by a group of five boys to the right and five girls to the left, several wearing scout berets, all dressed in attire evoking the regional costume of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes or Catholic scouting uniforms. Multiple motto inscriptions border the design, with the denomination numeral "10" at each lateral extremity and the designer's name at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 LE COEUR VAILLANT EST ARDENT AU TRAVAIL COMME AU JEU 10 DIX VAILLANTS L'AME VAILLANTE A TOUJOURS LE SOURIRE LE COEUR VAILLANT FAIT BIEN CE QU'IL FAIT NOUS REFERONS UNE FRANCE PLUS BELLE L'AME VAILLANTE A LE REGARD FRANC ET LE COEUR PUR L'ÂME VAILLANTE A TOUJOURS LE SOURIRE F.A BREYSSE |
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Cœurs Vaillants was a French Catholic youth movement, and these notes — denominated in Vaillants rather than francs — were internal scrip used within the organization's activities and camps. They were never legal tender and never intended to be; the point was to teach children basic economic habits within a controlled, moralized framework. Breysse, a prolific designer of religious imagery and youth press materials in interwar France, handled much of the movement's visual output.
The Vaillant series is occasionally mistaken for wartime emergency scrip. It isn't.