Live auction - fme_969043 - FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Médaille, Souvenir à la gloire immortelle de la Nation Française, Siège de la Bastille
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Souvenir à la gloire immortelle de la Nation Française, Siège de la Bastille
Date: (1789)
Metal : bronzed tin
Diameter : 79,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 135,31 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine sombre hétérogène. Trou rebouché à 12 heures. De l’usure sur certains hauts reliefs. Quelques coups sur la tranche
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : A LA - GLOIRE IMMORTELLE DE LA NATION - FRANCAISE.
Obverse description : Personnification de la Ville de Paris, casquée, tenant un drapeau timbré d’un coq sur champ de fleur de lis, et s’accoudant sur un bouclier aux armes de la ville, la médaille des vainqueurs de la Bastille accroché au dessous. Tentes et trophées d’armes sous un soleil rayonnant. Signé : BRANCHE F. et 1789.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SIEGE DE LA BASTILLE EN LÉGENDE CIRCULAIRE ; À L’EXERGUE EN TROIS LIGNES : EPOQUE DU 14 JUILLET / 1789 DEDIE AUX / PATRIOTES.
Reverse description : Vue du siège de la Bastille avec les citoyens armés assiégeant la forteresse, parmi lesquels des soldats des Gardes-Françaises.
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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