Live auction - fme_969092 - FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Médaille, Confédération des Français, Place de la liberté
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Confédération des Français, Place de la liberté
Date: 1790
Metal : bronzed tin
Diameter : 74,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 143,54 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron. Reliefs un peu mous par endroits. Faible usure
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : CONFEDERATION DES FRANCAI / IS CHAMP DE MARS LE / 14 JUILLET 1790.
Obverse description : Rassemblement de personnages autour d’une place. Un autel au centre de la scène.
Reverse
Reverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : PLACE DE LA LIBERTE SUR / LE TEREIN DE LA BA / STILLE 1790.
Reverse description : Une place entourée d’arbres, au milieu de laquelle est une colonne d’ordre ionique, dont le piédestal est décoré de trois statues, et qui est surmontée de deux lions adossés portant l’écu de France, sur lequel est une statue de la Renommée. Cette figure tient d’une main sa trompette, et de l’autre une branche d’olivier avec une baguette surmontée du bonnet de la Liberté. La place est couverte de personnages qui s’y promènent.
Commentary
Le revers de cette médaille reprend une médaille relative aux projets qui furent faits pour établir une place régulière sur le terrain de la Bastille et et pour y élever une colonne.
Historical background
FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
(20/06/1789-21/09/1792
On June 17, 1789, the "States General" set themselves up as the "National Assembly". On June 20, the deputies of the Third Estate, as well as 149 representatives of the Clergy and 2 of the nobility, meet in the Salle du Jeu de Paume, in Versailles and swear not to separate until the Constitution is written. This is the famous "Oath of the tennis court". On July 9, this assembly became the "National Constituent Assembly". This assembly, which then had 1,200 deputies, sat first at Versailles and then at the Tuileries. From September 3 to 13, it votes the Constitution, which the King accepts. Its mission accomplished, it separated on September 30, 1791. It was immediately replaced by the Legislative Assembly..
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