1000 Francs

The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale served as the note-issuing authority across French West Africa from 1901, operating under a concession from the French state rather than as a central bank in the modern sense. This series straddles the fall of the Third Republic and the Vichy period — notes dated within this range circulated under dramatically different political administrations without any change to the paper itself.

Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her engraving work as "Rita," contributed to a number of Banque de France productions during this period. Jules Piel was among the more prolific engravers on the Chamalières workshop roster in the 1930s and 1940s.