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1 franc - Chambre de Commerce de Cambrai [59]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Cambrai |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAMBRAI TROISIÈME SÉRIE N° UN FRANC 1 15 Septembre 1914 Le Trésorier Le Président Le Caissier LE PRÉSENT BILLET SERA REMBOURSÉ PAR LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAMBRAI CENT JOURS APRÈS LA SIGNATURE DE LA PAIX IMP. DELIGNE & Cie CAMBRAI |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAMBRAI TROISIÈME SÉRIE N° UN FRANC 1 15 Septembre 1914 Le Trésorier Le Président Le Caissier LE PRÉSENT BILLET SERA REMBOURSÉ PAR LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAMBRAI CENT JOURS APRÈS LA SIGNATURE DE LA PAIX IMP. DELIGNE & Cie CAMBRAI |
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Cambrai was occupied by German forces within weeks of this note's issue in August 1914, making the Chambre de Commerce's emergency scrip one of the more short-lived French wartime issues. The occupation lasted until October 1918, and notes like this one circulated under German military administration — an awkward situation for instruments bearing French republican iconography and issued by a civilian commercial body that was effectively paralyzed.
Fernand Deligne's Cambrai press printed this locally, which adds a particular irony: the printer itself was soon operating under occupation. Whether production of the full series was completed before the Germans arrived in late August remains an open question among specialists of the JP catalogue.