fme_563877 - FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Médaille, Fédération martiale, Temple de la Concorde
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Type : Médaille, Fédération martiale, Temple de la Concorde
Date: 1790
Mint name / Town : 69 - Lyon
Metal : tin
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver COCHET Robert (1903-1988)
Weight : 16,29 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire présentant une jolie patine grise. La médaille présente quelques coups et une petites usure mais a gardé une bonne partie de son brillant
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FEDERATION. - .MARTIALE // À L’EXERGUE : TEMPLE DE LA / CONCORDE.
Obverse description : Le temple de la Concorde, placé dans le centre d’un rocher, sur le faîte duquel est la statue de la Liberté, entre deux trophées ; autour de ce rocher sont plusieurs tentes. Signé : GALLE F. - COCHET INV..
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORCE, UNION - ET PROSPERITE // À L’EXERGUE : XXX MAI MDCCXC.
Reverse description : Armoiries de Lyon sur cuirs et lauriers surmontées d’une gueule de lion de face, derrière, canons et drapeaux. Signé : GALLE F..
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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