E-auction 305-224544 - fme_400069 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille du voyage en France
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| Estimate : | 180 € |
| Price : | 29 € |
| Maximum bid : | 120 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 February 2019 18:20:00 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Médaille du voyage en France
Date: 1832
Mint name / Town : 60 - Compiègne
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver J. L.
Weight : 24 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Superbe médaille avec de très beaux reliefs et une agréable patine homogène, un peu plus terne au revers. Quelques traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉOPOLD I - ROI DES BELGES.
Obverse description : Buste de Léopold Ier à droite, signé : J. L..
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOYAGE DE LEOPOLD I A COMPIÈGNE. // SON / ENTREVUE / AVEC LE ROI / DES FRANÇAIS / LE 30 MAI / 1832..
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en six lignes horizontales.
Commentary
Le 9 août 1832 était célébré au château de Compiègne le mariage de Léopold Ier roi des Belges et de la princesse Louise d’Orléans. Alors que les diplomates de la Conférence de Londres négociaient la reconnaissance du traité entérinant la création de la Belgique, l’idée de sceller une alliance diplomatique entre la Belgique et la France par une union dynastique prenait corps, projet auquel oeuvrait avec détermination le roi Léopold. Le roi Louis-Philippe et la reine Marie-Amélie, en dépit de la douleur de l’inévitable séparation, y étaient eux aussi favorables. Une réponse positive fut apportée en mai à la demande en mariage. Au cours des Entretiens de Compiègne, du 28 mai au 1er juin, les souveraines étudièrent discrètement les modalités financières de la convention matrimoniale.
cf. http://palaisdecompiegne.fr/sites/palaisdecompiegne.fr/files/dp_louise_leopold.pdf.
cf. http://palaisdecompiegne.fr/sites/palaisdecompiegne.fr/files/dp_louise_leopold.pdf.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I
(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)
Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.
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