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100 Francs La Bourdonnais
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio note centred on a portrait of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais at centre; the ship 'La Bourdonnais' vignette appears at left, while a native couple is positioned at right. Guilloche underprint frames the composition, with denomination and issuer inscriptions arranged across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 100 CENT FRANCS L'ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI W. FEL. FEC. G. REGNIER SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Hundred Francs Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labour in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by Law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer issued this series to serve French colonial territories across multiple continents simultaneously — the same note circulated in places as geographically and economically distinct as Réunion, French Guiana, and Guadeloupe. That breadth of intended use required a neutral, non-specific design, which is precisely why Pierre Poivre's associate La Bourdonnais — a colonial administrator of the Indian Ocean — was chosen as a figure palatable across such disparate jurisdictions.
Armanelli and Régnier were among the Banque de France's senior engravers in this period, and their work on this issue shows the full intaglio quality the Paris atelier maintained even in immediate postwar production.