New Year card

P.F.

P.F., standing for the French words "pour féliciter", is used as an abbreviation for New Year wish, expressing good wishes for the coming year or in social correspondence extending congratulations.

PF New Year cards are generally used only in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia, being taken over from 19th century's Czech lands.
The phrase is not used in this sense in French-speaking nor other countries.

Following the tradition established by the New Year cards of Karl, Count Chotek of [Chotkow and Wognin|Charles Chotek of Chotkow], the highest Burgrave of Bohemia between 1826 and 1843, today's Czechs and Slovaks continue to use PF, together with the number of an upcoming year, standing for "wishing you all the happiness in the new year".
Chotek commissioned with his New Year cards Josef Bergler, a Bavarian painter, draftsman and engraver of the Classicist period, a representative of academicism, teacher and first director of the Academy of [Fine Arts in Prague].