Live auction - fme_470917 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille, Remerciement à Charles, comte de Montalembert
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2019 16:57:15 |
Type : Médaille, Remerciement à Charles, comte de Montalembert
Date: 1838
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 50,27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 49,88 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : CHS COMTE DE MONTALEMBERT PAIR DE FRANCE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, signé : J. LECLERC F. / BRUXL.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LA BELGIQUE RECONNAISSANTE. / AU GÉNÉREUX / DÉFENSEUR / DE LA CAUSE / DE LA JUSTICE / ET DE LA LIBERTÉ. / - / MDCCCXXXVIII..
Reverse description : Légende en 7 lignes, une couronne de chêne au centre.
Commentary
D’après l’ouvrage “Histoire numismatique de la révolution Belge ou description raisonnée des médailles” de Milis, cette médaille fut faite en trois exemplaires, soit un exemplaire en or, un second en argent et le troisième en bronze. Elles furent faites pour remercier de la générosité de Charles de Montalembert quant au fait de plaider la cause de la Belgique à la Chambre des Pairs en France.
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870) est un journaliste, historien et homme politique français.
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870) est un journaliste, historien et homme politique français.
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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