fme_609863 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Camerone, 2e régiment étranger d’infanterie
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Type : Médaille, Camerone, 2e régiment étranger d’infanterie
Date: 1968
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 61,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 104,5 g.
Edge : stries horizontales + BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène avec quelques taches noires
Obverse
Obverse legend : CAMERONE.
Obverse description : Scène de la défense de Camerone par la Légion étrangère, signé : d’après E. DETAILLE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 2E REGIMENT ETRANGER D’INFANTERIE - 1841-1968.
Reverse description : Légende circulaire autour du symbole de la Légion étrangère.
Commentary
L’avers de cette médaille reprend un tableau de Jean-Baptiste-Edouard Detaille réalisé en 1886.
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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