Cecile Guillame

Cecile Guillame , born with Chassey-lès-Montbozon (Haute-Saône) the July 18th 1933 and dead the August 4th 2004, is the first woman graveure of postage stamps French.

Formed at the school of the fine arts of Nancy and Paris in the Years 1950, it adopts engraving. It incorporates the French post office thanks to her husband, the engraver Michel Monvoisin. Its first stamp is emitted with Monaco in 1967 and made of it the first woman engrave stamps in France. Its first stamp for the Metropolitan France goes back to 1973 and presents the Clos Lucé to Amboise.

At the time of its retirement in 1993, it had engraved and sometimes drawn more than three hundred stamps for France, Andorre, Monaco, the overseas territories and several countries of French-speaking Africa.

Its art was also exerted in Estampe S and on Céramique S.

Principal achievements

First stamp: “Cooper-Climax 1962”, series of the cars having gained the automobile Grand Prix of Monaco, Monaco, 1967; according to a drawing of Pebble Lambert.
First stamp for the Metropolitan France: “The Closed Lucé in Amboise”, France, 1973.

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