Aiguebelle
Aiguebelle
To make ends meet after the French Revolution the monks of Notre-dame d'Aiguebelle were forced to look for more income than their traditional occupations in agriculture could yield. A monk with a sweet tooth suggested to go for chocolat. His idea proved to be a very good one. It was soon necessary to build a dedicated production plant. The Chocolat d'Aiguebelle became one of the bigger chocolate brands in France during the early 1900s.
Advertising cards were produced covering many natural history themes as well as maps of the ‘départements’ of France and French colonies. Cards were issued both as collector cards with information on the back and as divided-back postcards.
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| Ain | Aisne | Allier | Basse-Alpes |
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| Hautes-Alpes | Alpes-Maritimes | Ardèche | Ardennes |
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| Ariège | Aube | Aude | Aveyron |
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| Bouches-du-Rhône | Calvados | Cantal | Charente |
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| Charente-Inférieure | Cher | Corrèze | Corse |
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| Côte-d'Or | Côtes-du-Nord | Creuse | Dordogne |
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| Doubs | Drôme | Eure | Eure-et-Loir |
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| Finistère | Gard | Haute-Garonne | Gers |
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| Gironde | Hérault | Ille-et-Vilaine | Indre |
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| Indre-et-Loire | Isère | Jura | Landes |
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| Loir-et-Cher | Loire | Haute-Loire | Loire-Inférieure |
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| Loiret | Lot | Lot-et-Garonne | Lozère |
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| Maine-et-Loire | Manche | Marne | Haute-Marne |
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| Mayenne | Meurthe-et-Moselle | Meuse | Morbihan |
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| Nièvre | Nord | Oise | Orne |
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| Pas-de-Calais | Puy-de-Dôme | Basses-Pyrénées | Hautes-Pyrénées |
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| Pyrénées-Orientales | Rhône | Haute-Saône | Saône-et-Loire |
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| Sarthe | Savoie | Haute-Savoie | Seine |
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| Seine Inférieure | Seine-et-Marne | Seine-et-Oise | Deux-Sèvres |
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| Somme | Tarn | Tarn-et-Garonne | Var |
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| Vaucluse | Vendée | Vienne | Haute-Vienne |
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| Vosges | Yonne | Territoire-de-Belfort | |
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| Alger | Constantine | Oran | Tunis |
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| Dahomey | Côte-d'Ivoire | Gabon | Guinée |
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| Mauritanie | Moyen-Congo | Oubangui-Chari | Sahara |
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| Sénégal | Haut-Sénégal et Niger | Somali | Tchad |
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| Annam et Laos(Nord) | Annam et Laos(Sud) | Cambodge | Cochinchine |
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| Indes | Madagascar(Nord) | Madagascar(Sud) | Nouvelle-Calédonie |
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| Polynésie Occidentale | Polynésie Orientale | St Pierre et Miquelon | Tonkin |
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| Antilles | Guadeloupe | Guyane | Martinique |
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