fme_942928 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III Médaille, Adolphe Max, Bourgmestre de Bruxelles
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Type : Médaille, Adolphe Max, Bourgmestre de Bruxelles
Date: 1935
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BÉNARD Raoul René Alphonse (1881-1961)
Weight : 142,44 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, quelques rayures à l’avers et taches au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AD. MAX / BOURGMESTRE / DE BRUXELLES.
Obverse description : Buste d’Adolphe Max de trois quarts gauche. Inscription en trois ligne à gauche et signé à droite : RAOUL BENARD / MCMXXXV.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CIVIVM SVORVM ADVERSVS GERMANOS ACER DEFENSOR. / PER QVATVOR ANNOS EXSVL ET IN VINCVLIS. // BEATI QVI PROPTER IVSTITIAM. / PATIVNTVR PERSECVTIONEM..
Reverse description : Vue de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles. Signé à l’exergue : MCMXXXV / R. BENARD.
Reverse translation : Ardent défenseur contre les Allemands de ses concitoyens déportés pendant quatre ans. Heureux pour ceux qui souffrent persécution pour la justice.
Commentary
Raoul Bénard, élève de Chaplain, reçut le Prix de Rome en 1911, ainsi que la médaille d’argent au Salon des Artistes français de 1922 et la médaille d’or en 1924. Il est chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III
(17/12/1934-21/9/1944-16/7/1951)
Son of Albert I and grand-nephew of Leopold II, Leopold III became king following the accidental death of his father. In 1936, faced with threats of war, he put an end to the alliance with France and reaffirmed the neutrality of Belgium. In 1940, during the German invasion, he took command of the army but was quickly forced to sign an unconditional surrender. A prisoner of war, he refused any collaboration and ceased all political activity. Taken to Germany then liberated by the Allies, he retired to Switzerland while a regency was entrusted to his brother, Prince Charles (September 21, 1944). Much criticized, he regained the throne in 1950 after a referendum on the resumption of his powers. Welcomed by strikes and demonstrations, he then named Baudoin "royal prince" then abdicated in his favor in July 1951. He died in 1983.
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