fme_897602 - SECOND REPUBLIC Médaille, La liberté ou La mort
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Type : Médaille, La liberté ou La mort
Date: 1848
Metal : tin
Diameter : 54,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 62,18 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Flan voilé. Petite usure sur certains reliefs
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Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : LA - LIBERTE - OU / LA MORT.
Obverse description : Homme debout, tenant un sabre d’une main et une lance coiffée d’un bonnet de l’autre. Canon, faisceau, boulets, tambour et drapeaux à l’arrière plan.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTE (PENDULE) / EGALITE (ÉQUERRE) / FRATERNITE (FOI) / - / 1848.
Reverse description : Légende en 4 lignes.
Historical background
SECOND REPUBLIC
(02/24/1848-12/2/1852)
Louis-Napoleon was elected on December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He did not have the right to run again in 1852. Louis-Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and the commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million YES and only 640,000 NO. Victor Hugo went into exile on December 12. The following year, he will publish "Napoléon le Petit" which will earn Louis-Napoleon, who has become Napoleon III in the meantime, this famous sentence: "Napoleon le Petit by Victor le Grand".
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