100 Francs - type 1848 final to italics

The type 1848 design had a long run at the Banque de France, but the 1861–1863 variant marks a specific typographic revision — the shift from roman to italic lettering in portions of the text panel, which gives this catalogue type its name. It sounds minor. It was not minor to the printers or the accounting clerks tracking plate states.

André Galle's engraving work dates from considerably earlier; the plates were reworked rather than recut from scratch. Normand's underlying design was by then already a generation old, kept in service through successive modifications rather than replaced — a practical economy typical of Banque de France production policy in this period.