1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Evreux 27

When the wartime contraction of metallic coinage left French commerce paralyzed in 1915, chambers of commerce across France were authorized to issue their own emergency fractional notes — a decentralized stop-gap that produced dozens of distinct local series. The Évreux chamber's issue was printed by Berger-Levrault in Nancy, a firm better known for military cartography and government printing contracts than banknote production, which gives this series a slightly austere, administrative character compared to the more decorative issues from specialist printers.

Watermark security on a note this small was unusual enough to reflect genuine concern about counterfeiting even at the one-franc level.