Louis Yvert

Louis Yvert was the cofounder of the philatelic Publisher French Yvert and Tellier with the Imprimeur Théodule Tellier, starting from the family Imprimerie rested by his/her grandfather Eugene Yvert. It was born the June 24th 1866 with Paris and died the April 17th 1950 with Amiens.

Youth

Born in 1866 with Paris, Louis Yvert is the son of a lawyer Henry Yvert and Cantatrice Miss de Taisy. At four years, he moves with Amiens with his parents where his/her father takes again the direction of family printing works.

Its education gives him leisures which it preserves the remainder of its life. It daily practices the Piano and the Violoncelle.

Graduate be-letters and be-sciences, it voluntarily engages in the army for one year and in fate with the rank of Sous-lieutenant of reserve. He begins hardly his studies of right to Paris where he carries out a life of Dandy. His/her mother decides that it will continue its studies in spite of the death of his father in 1885.

Career

Once graduate of right in 1889, it returns to Amiens to be formed with the direction of the printing works and the newspaper of his/her father, the Echo of the Sum , with the assistance of Théodule Tellier, printer chief become the associate of the Yvert family in 1885.

Of 1889 with 1891, it works like Journaliste with the Echo . The year of its marriage with Pauline Cordelier in 1891, it takes the direction of the Journal. However, it is not in phase with the political line, legitimist and preserving, of the newspaper and its readers. Nevertheless, the newspaper remains the primary source of the company Yvert and Tellier.

The collection of postage stamps thanks to Théodule Tellier will open a new horizon with the head of undertaking. He discovers the bulletin the Echo of the timbrology whose Tellier became editor association in 1890, the joy of the collection and the sorting, and the interest of the readers for material of assistance to the collection (pre-printed albums, catalogs exhaustive, etc).

In 1895, it ceases writing in the Echo of the Sum to devote itself entirely to philately. Having discovered that the majority of the catalogs of stamps of the time change their classification and criteria of classification each year, it launches out with Tellier in the manufacture of a catalog to the fixed year classification by year: the stamps are listed in the chronological order of emission. In November 1896, for two francs, the Catalog price list of postage stamps by Yvert and Tellier is available. Thick of 576 pages and indexing 5.000 stamps, it is drawn with 8.000 specimens. An album where each box corresponds to a stamp is also published. Success is fast, the catalog becomes annual.

The enrichment of the company by philately makes it possible Louis Yvert to travel in Western Europe while leaving in Tellier the control of the company. It is at the time of a stay with Paris in 1900 that it meets a merchant of Genevese stamps Theodore Champion. This expert is able to evaluate the value of a great number of stamps which are presented to him. Yvert joins him so that it updates the dimensions of the catalog which becomes the catalogs Yvert and Tellier - Champion .

April 1st, 1913, when Tellier takes its retirement, Louis repurchases his shares, but, by friendship, maintains the name of the printer chief in the title of the catalog.

Succession

During first half of the 20th century, Louis Yvert thus directs his company of philatelic edition which becomes the reference in France.

Gradually, during the Inter-war period, it places its two sons and its son-in-law at the head of parts of the company:

  • elder the Henri is occupied with discretion and effectiveness of printing works,
  • the junior Pierre, sharp spirit, devotes to the Echo of the timbrology and with a life of voyages of philatelic interests,
  • the son-in-law Jean Gervais reconcé with its career of doctor to marry Jeanne Yvert. In exchange, the father-in-law entrusts to him the edition of the publications, the philatelic materials and the catalog.

Louis Yvert dies the April 17th 1950.

See too

  • Family Yvert

Source

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