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3 November 2007.) was a French postal historian and the first curator of the postal museum of France, now La Poste's Museum, from 1946 to 1955.

Biography

Born in Bédarieux, in the département of

, Vaillé was a Doctor of Law. In 1920, he was hired by the Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones (PTT) as a librarian. Over the next ten years, he managed the central library of the PTT. In 1936, he convinced PTT Minister

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to restart the project to create a

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, which had been originally proposed around the turn of the 20th century. Even if the economic crisis of the 1930s and

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prevented any concrete action, Vaillé inventoried the collections and material available in the PTT's archives and libraries. In 1943, he became president of the future museum's ruling board. On 4 June 1946, he became its first curator with the inauguration of the Postal Museum of France. The museum was installed in the Choiseul-Praslin residence in the

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. He retired in 1955. He was elected as a titular member of the Académie de philatélie in 1938, and then as an honorary member in 1955. He wrote a seven-volume "General History of the French Posts", published between 1947 and 1955.

Publications

* (1947-1955). ''Histoire générale des Postes françaises'' eneral History of the French Posts 7 volumes, Paris,

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. * (1946). ''Histoire des postes françaises jusqu'à la Révolution'' istory of the French Posts until the Revolution "

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" collection, #200, Presses universitaires de France. * (1947). ''Histoire des postes françaises depuis la Révolution'' istory of the French Posts since the Revolution "

" collection, #260, Presses universitaires de France. * (1950). ''Le

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. Histoire du contrôle et de la violation de la correspondance privée'' he Black Room. History of the Control and Violation of the Private Correspondence Paris, Presses universitaires de France. * (1952). ''La Poste en France au milieu du XXe siècle '' rench Post in the middle of the 20th Century Paris, Postal Museum. Engravings by

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, Paul Dufresne, Albert Decaris, Paul-Pierre Lemagny,

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. * (1959). ''Histoire du timbre-poste'' istory of the Postage Stamp "

" collection, #273, Presses universitaires de France. He wrote

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of ''Jean Coulanges''.

Sources and references

* Martin Hella (December 2006). « Du Musée postal de France au musée de La Poste » rom the Postal Museum of France to La Poste's Museum ''

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