France unveils its 2025 stamp releases, showcasing a perfect blend of history, art, and national pride. This digest highlights new issues celebrating cultural icons, historic events, and stunning landscapes. Each stamp is a miniature masterpiece, reflecting the country’s rich heritage and artistic excellence. From literary greats to architectural wonders, these releases offer something special for every collector.
This is part 4 of our digest. You can read the previous ones:
- Digest: New Stamps of France, 2025, part 1
- Digest: New Stamps of France, 2025, part 2
- Digest: New Stamps of France, 2025, part 3
13. Astérix stamp series (Release: March 7, 2025)
Small and clever, Asterix never runs out of energy when facing the Romans occupying Gaul (those Romans are crazy!). Alongside Obelix, he has formed a legendary comic duo for 65 years becoming one of the most recognizable cartoon characters all over the world. Many readers identify with these mustached, cheerful, grumbling, and battle-ready Gauls, first created in 1959 by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
Over 40 adventures have been published, with Asterix still defying Caesar, while Obelix and his loyal Dogmatix happily send entire Roman legions flying. Asterix is more than just a character—he is part of French shared cultural heritage.
14. Stamp holiday 2025, street arts stamp series (Release: March 7, 2025)
Among the street performers, acrobats bring poetry to the pavement, blending circus, gymnastics, cabaret, and theater. The word “acrobat” comes from the idea of “walking on tiptoes,” but also evokes movement toward the extreme, pushing the limits of the body in extraordinary spaces. Their universal body language transcends words, engaging spectators in the moment rather than waiting for an audience to seek them out.
With human trampolines, seesaws, and swings, the flyer defies gravity, soaring through the air. In 2025, the Fête du Timbre introduces a new four-year series dedicated to street arts, with the inaugural theme focusing on “Jugglers and Acrobats.” This celebration will take place on March 8 and 9 across 84 French cities, offering philatelists and enthusiasts a chance to explore stamps that capture the dynamic world of street performances.
15. Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure, National Necropolis stamp (Release: March 24, 2025)
On March 24, 2025, La Poste will issue a stamp featuring the Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Resistance Memorial, built 80 years ago in 1945. The site includes a cemetery with 2,255 graves of fallen fighters. Overlooking the town of Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure in the Charente department, the 20-meter-high white monument combines the “V” for Victory with the Cross of Lorraine.
Designed by architect and former Resistance member François Poncelet, the memorial honors those executed by the Nazis or killed in battle while resisting the occupation. It was initiated in 1945 by Colonel Chabanne and future senator-mayor Guy Pascaud, both survivors of the Bir Hacheim maquis, named after the heroic Allied stand in 1942. Inaugurated on October 21, 1951, by President Vincent Auriol, the memorial and its cemetery pay tribute not only to the Charente Resistance but to all those who died for France.
16. Emmanuel Mounier stamp (Release: March 24, 2025)
On March 24, 2025, La Poste will issue a stamp honoring philosopher Emmanuel Mounier on the 120th anniversary of his birth. Born in Grenoble on April 1, 1905, to a modest family of rural origin, Mounier studied philosophy under Jacques Chevalier, a close associate of Henri Bergson. He later moved to Paris to prepare for the agrégation in philosophy, which he successfully passed in 1928 at the age of 23. Inspired by the ideas of Charles Péguy, he abandoned a conventional academic career to found the international intellectual journal Esprit in 1932.
Deeply committed to social justice, he saw the economic and social crises of the 1930s as symptoms of a broader civilizational crisis and sought to redefine personalism as a guiding philosophy. Until his death on March 22, 1950, he remained actively engaged in major political and intellectual struggles, including opposition to the Munich Agreement, support for the Spanish Republic, participation in the Resistance, and advocacy for European unity.
