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1000 Francs - Blue & Pink type 1889
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1889-1926 |
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| Designer(s) | Obverse: Designers: Georges Duval, Charles-Jules Robert, Jacques-Jean Barre Reverse: Designers: Charles Camille Chazal, Georges Duval |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries two large seated allegorical groups rendered in intaglio: Commerce and Industry to the left, and Agriculture and Science to the right, set within an elaborate guilloche border framework. The engraver's and designer's credits appear in the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | 07.11.1889 - 29.11.1889 - Delmotte, Bertin, Billotte 23.01.1890 - 14.03.1898 - Delmotte, d'Anfreville, Billotte 27.10.1898 - 21.06.1900 - Bouchet, d'Anfreville, Billotte 09.04.1901 - 10.02.1902 - Panhard, d'Anfreville, Giraud 23.10.1902 - 30.12.1905 - Frachon, d'Anfreville, Giraud 02.01.1906 - 23.05.1907 - Frachon, d'Anfreville, Picard 07.05.1908 - 24.01.1919 / 19.06.1914 - Frachon, Laferrière, Picard 15.05.1919 - 27.02.1920 - Aupetit, Laferrière, Picard 15.11.1920 - 29.04.1921 - Emmery, Laferrière, Aupetit 01.05.1922 - 26.06.1926 / 30.09.1925 - Emmery, Platet, Aupetit 01.07.1926 - 16.09.1926 - Emmery, Platet, Strohl |
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The 1000 Francs "Bleu et Rose" of 1889 is among the longest-lived high-denomination notes in French monetary history, remaining in issue across nearly four decades — through the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War, and the postwar inflationary turbulence of the early 1920s. That extraordinary run explains the cascade of signature combinations: eleven distinct pairings across the series as governors and secretaries general rotated through the Banque de France.
Jacques-Jean Barre's involvement on the obverse connects this note to an earlier generation of French intaglio craftsmanship — Barre served as Graveur Général de la Monnaie and died in 1855, meaning his contribution was a plate design recycled well after his death, a common Banque de France practice when established compositions were trusted and plate retooling was expensive.
Notes dated through the wartime window (1914–1918) circulated under exceptional pressure, and paper quality from that period is demonstrably weaker in surviving examples.