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This note was designed and engraved under unusual wartime circumstances. Marguerite Dreyfus — known professionally as "Rita" — was one of the few women working as an engraver at the Banque de France's Chamalières facility during the Occupation years, and her credited work on this plate is among the more documented examples of her output. The Banque de France printing connection here is direct: the institution produced notes for Banque de l'Indochine issues when colonial printing infrastructure was inaccessible.

By 1945, Indochina itself was in crisis — Japanese forces had dismantled French colonial administration in March of that year, and notes printed in metropolitan France had little practical means of reaching circulation through normal channels.