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The French Post Office (La Poste) has issued a
postage stamp to honour the baguette - France's
bread. The stamp is no
issue. It is coated with
capsules that release the fragrance of fresh bread. The stamp shows a baguette decorated with a red, white, and blue
. A Parisian shopkeeper who sells the "scratch-and-sniff" stamp said it had a "
smell". The stamp was launched to celebrate the
saint of bakers. It had an
print run of 594,000
. La Poste said French
bake more than six billion baguettes every year.