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The Customs national museum exposes rare documents selected from its archives collection. The posters displayed take you for a journey through the history of public announcments, of paper fabrication and of printing.

Statements of the King, notices of conviction or imperial decree, a selection of twenty two original documents dating from 1603 till 1963 is exhibited to offer an insight of official communication through history, on themes so varied as the control of the goods, the fight against fraud, the tobacco…

Skilfully ornamented, these often underestimated posters are to be discovered during three months.