Tourism 2003
Differdange (17,659 inhabitants, southwest of Luxembourg-Ville)
The Fontaine Marie of Differdange of the Order of Cîteaux Abbey, affiliated with Clairvaux (1235 - 1796) was founded by Alexandre de Soleuvre. The convent was dedicated to noble young women. The remaining building, depicted on the stamp, was built by Abbess Françoise de Gourcy (1719 - 1843). She had her coat of arms sculpted on the central fronton. After the suppression of the convent by French Republicans, the estate was purchased by a series of different affluent families. The town of Differdange bought the building in 1929 in order to set up a civil hospital. In 1981, the State acquired it and the hospital became a nursing home. The recent restoration of the old central area (1997 - 2000) gives to this old shell of a building all the splendour of yesteryear, all the nobility of its architecture.
| Price of the series: | 4,00 € |
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| Designs: | Jacques Doppée, Bruxelles (B) |
| Printing: | Multicolour offset by "The House Of Questa", Byfleet, Surrey (United Kingdom) |
| Dimensions: | 40 x 30 mm, 20 stamps per sheet |
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