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10 francs Bon de Solidarité
| Issuer | Secours National |
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| Year | 1940-1944 |
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| Value | 10 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Marshal Pétain in an oval vignette at left, with a vignette to the right showing two women and children against a coastal landscape. The note has a fine guilloche border and lettering arranged in horizontal bands across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Francisque gallique (Vichy axe emblem) at left within a decorative guilloche framework, flanked by the numeral 10. Text blocks listing the three beneficiary organizations occupy the right portion of the reverse. |
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The Secours National was a French relief organization that existed before the war but was repurposed under Vichy as the regime's primary charitable apparatus — nominally apolitical, increasingly not. These Bons de Solidarité were not legal tender in any conventional sense; they functioned as a form of coerced donation receipt, sold to the public and surrendered at face value to fund civilian welfare programs. Buying them was technically voluntary, though social and professional pressure made refusal difficult in many workplaces and communities.
The paper varies noticeably across the run, reflecting wartime supply constraints through the full four-year issue period.