De La Rue then as a stationer and printer. In 1831 he secured his business a Royal Warrant to produce playing cards. In 1855 it started printing postage stamps and in 1860 banknotes. In 1896, the family partnership was converted into a private company. In 1921, the de la Rue family sold their interests. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947. Then called "Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited", it changed its name in 1958 to "The De La Rue Company Limited". A takeover bid for De La Rue was made by the Rank Organisation plc in
Gervais de La Rue d'Agriculture de Caen", and in other periodical collections, he published separately "Essais historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs, et les Trouvères normands et anglo-normands" (3 vols., 1834), and "Recherches historiques sur la Prairie de Caen" (1837); and after his death appeared "Mémoires historiques sur le palinod de Caen" (1841), "Recherches sur la tapisserie de Bayeux" (1841), and "Nouveaux Essais historiques sur la ville de Caen" (1842). In all his writings, he displayed a strong partiality for everything Norman, and rated the Norman influence on French and English literature as of the very highest moment. Gervais de La Rue Gervais de