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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier (c. 1480 – 5 October 1524), was a Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter from the area of modern Wallonia. He was probably the uncle of Herri met de Bles, his follower in establishing a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes. Charles Plisnier (1896 – 1952) was a Belgian writer from Wallonia. He was a Communist in his youth and briefly belonged to the Trotskyist movement in the late 1920s. He disavowed communism, and became a Roman Catholic, remaining nevertheless a Marxist. He turned to literature, writing family sagas against bourgeois society. Mariages (1936; "Nothing to Chance") deals with the limitations of social conventions; the five-volume Meurtres (1939–41; "Murders") centres on an idealistic tragic hero, Noël Annequin, in his fight against hypocrisy. In 1937, he won the Prix Goncourt for Faux passeports, short stories denouncing Stalinism, in the same spirit as Arthur Koestler. He was the first foreigner to receive Prix Goncourt. He was also a Walloon movement activist and at the end of the Walloon National Congress there was a standing ovation after his speech, the assembly then singing La Marseillaise. |
| Face value | 6,50 Francs |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1882 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 959 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 1825 Stanley Gibbons BE 2450 AFA number BE 1889 Belgium BE 1830 Unificato BE 1825 |
| Series | Culture |
| Place in series | 3 |
| Stamp colour | brown on white |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 10.000.000 |
| Issue date | 16/10/1976 |
| Designer | Jean De Vos / Jean Malvaux |
| Print technique | recess |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 39.00 mm |
| Width | 28.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
