1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Béziers 34

The Chambre de Commerce de Béziers began issuing these small-denomination emergency notes in 1915 as wartime metal shortages stripped ordinary commerce of its small change — a problem that hit market towns in the Hérault particularly hard. Hundreds of French chambres de commerce resorted to the same solution simultaneously, but the Béziers issues are notable for retaining a local designer: Magrou was a sculptor and medallist based in the region, an unusual choice when most equivalent bodies simply ordered stock designs from their printers.

The JP#27 reference covers four distinct varieties across this denomination, differentiated by serial ranges and minor typographic adjustments rather than any redesign.