A l'occasion du 600e anniversaire de la naissance de Jeanne d'Arc, la France et le Vatican vont coéditer un timbre à l'effigie de la Pucelle d'Orléans.Ce timbre sera tiré à 2,5 millions d'exemplaires pour la France et 1,6 million pour le Vatican. Il sera émis en mai et présenté et vendu en avant-première - pour les collectionneurs - à Orléans, les 11 et 12 mai.Pierre Bara (dont une partie de la famille est originaire de Bourges), est le jeune graveur de La Poste qui a réalisé le timbre à partir d'une enluminure du XVe siècle, conservée au Musée de l'Histoire de France, à Paris.
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00:00It is the 600th anniversary of the birth of Jeanne d'Arc, the mayor of Orléans, Serge
00:12Hengrois, with the Ethics Committee, which is in charge of all the organization of the
00:16festivities for this 600th anniversary, found that the establishment of a temple would
00:22mark even more strongly this event, which began for us on January 6, 2012, in the
00:28cathedral of Orléans, which is a symbolic date since it is the anniversary of the birth
00:33of Jeanne d'Arc, and which will continue until the end of the year.
00:38Pierre Barrat, what was your role in this temple dedicated to the 600th anniversary of
00:42Jeanne d'Arc?
00:43So I made the soft part, the engraved part of the temple, which I made from the visual
00:50that was used for the temple, which is an illumination taken from a parchment, which
00:55I had to adapt to the soft size for the creation of the temple.
00:58And what is your function within the printing house of Boulazac?
01:01So I am a post stamp engraver and also a GAO operator, so I take care of the reception
01:08and monitoring of all the engraved stamps at the printing house of the temples.
01:12And how many engravers are there at the printing house of the post?
01:14We are two engravers at the printing house of the post and there are still, I was going
01:18to say, a big ten in all of France.
01:20And you seem very young, how old are you?
01:22I am 22 years old.
01:24So what led you at the age of 22 to be one of the two engravers of the post?
01:28So it was probably my transition to the Estonian school in engraving that was decisive,
01:33in the sense that engraving brought me a lot artistically and also from an industrial
01:39point of view, which is a marriage perfectly successful at the printing house.
01:44You have a particular link with Jeanne d'Arc since you have a link with the central region,
01:48I believe.
01:49Yes, all my family, well, the vast majority of my family is from Bourges.
01:53So the emission of a stamp, like the one of Jeanne d'Arc, for the post, it is only
01:56the emission of a stamp.
01:57Or is it an event?
01:58The emission of a stamp is an event.
02:00We have about 12,000 requests that are submitted to Filapost every year on these 12,000
02:06requests.
02:0740 to 50 stamps appear and are published.
02:10You should know that for Orléans, the request was submitted in 2009.
02:15The emission of this stamp to Jeanne d'Arc, it has a particularity, it will not be
02:18only French.
02:19No, it is also another event, since in this case we have the pleasure of having a stamp
02:25that is co-edited with the Vatican and it is all the more rare that this time only four
02:31stamps, roughly per year, are in co-edition, that is to say that they come out simultaneously
02:36in a foreign country to ours and in France.
02:39So explain to us this paradox that consists for the post to edit beautiful stamps, very
02:44beautiful stamps, while people write less and less.
02:47It's not a paradox.
02:48When you write, you make a choice, or not.
02:50If you don't make the choice, since you have to write, there is the range of green stamp
02:54letters that exist.
02:55There is also what we can call beautiful stamps and therefore collection stamps that
03:00collectors can keep.
03:02If you wish, you can, for special events, births, marriages, choose to have access
03:08to the service of a platform called My Stamp To Me and send your photo and receive
03:15stamps that will be able to process your mail.
03:19We can use it like Marianne's stamp.
03:21Exactly.
03:22Marianne is the daughter of Yves Beaujard.
03:26Yves Beaujard is the same native of the Centre region since he is someone who was born
03:30in the Loir-et-Cher.
03:31So this Jeanne d'Arc stamp, when will we be able to buy it?
03:35We will be able to discover both the stamp and the engraver since Pierre Barrat will be
03:39with us on May 11 and 12 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans.
03:43The stamp will be available in all post offices from Monday, May 14.