URSSAF France 1964 Appel Cotisations Anny Peiffer Faded Paper
$ 6.86
Description
URSSAF France 1964 Appel Cotisations Anny Peiffer Faded Paper. This item is an official notice from the “Union pour le Recouvrement des Cotisations de Sécurité Sociale et d’Allocations Familiales” (URSSAF), the French agency responsible for collecting social security and family allowance contributions, dating to the first quarter of 1964. Classified as an “Appel des Cotisations Assurance Volontaire” (Call for Voluntary Insurance Contributions), this document is a tangible artifact of the post-war French welfare state, illustrating the administrative machinery behind the social safety net established in the mid-twentieth century. The notice is addressed to an individual named Anny Peiffer, demonstrating the personal reach of this bureaucratic system into the lives of private citizens. The item is printed on aged, off-white paper that has suffered significant fading of its text, rendering most of the printed and typed-in details difficult to decipher, though the overarching structure of a government demand for payment remains clear. A prominent horizontal crease bisects the document, indicating it was once folded for mailing or filing, and the left edge appears rough, suggesting it was torn or cut from a ledger or a book of similar forms. This ephemera offers a compelling glimpse into the formalized relationship between the French state and its citizenry regarding compulsory social insurance, a cornerstone of the nation’s post-war economic and social policy. The typographic layout, with its bold header and structured fields for dates, names, and contribution amounts, reflects the standardized, impersonal nature of mass-administered social programs, even as it was personalized for a specific recipient. The document’s physical condition, with its faded ink and paper toning, speaks to the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of such transactional records, which were never intended for long-term preservation but now serve as valuable primary sources for historians and collectors of European social history and administrative print culture. The use of specialized terminology such as “cotisations” and “assurance volontaire” provides specific insight into the lexicon of the French social security system during the early Fifth Republic, a period of modernization and expansion of state services.
