192 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 1997
Italian text with a summary in French

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FRENCH OCCUPATION OF FEZZAN
IN ITALIAN LIBYA

Mainly based on the sources of the collection of the authors, this study sketches a complete historical and postal historical general picture of the postage stamps of Fezzan.
"Fezzan is only a little piece of "our" Africa, a negligible territory of the Sahara desert, but still a territory of the Italian colony of Libya. The charm of the collections "of war" led me inevitably to collect and study the postage stamps of Italian colonies and, as soon as my specialization made me dedicate to the events, the adventurous story of the French conquest of Fezzan appeared. I found out a particular fact: postage stamps and postal documents were different from the others in that they were the only ones to testify Italian presence. Fezzan was in fact the only foreign occupation of Italian Africa that continued to use Italian postage stamps, documents and postal labels."