fjt_743636 - FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE DE PARIS Philippe Hecquet, doyen 1713/1714 1714
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Type : Philippe Hecquet, doyen 1713/1714
Date: 1714
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,96 g.
Edge : Cannelée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PH. HECQUET. ABBAV. M. P. DE.
Obverse description : Buste de Philippe Hecquet à gauche signé N.R.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONSTRAT ITER - 1714.
Reverse description : Un serpent rampant vers un temple antique devant lui sur une colline, entre des plantes et des rochers.
Reverse translation : Il indique le chemin.
Commentary
Feuardent indique : “Hecquet, très pieux, fut un des solitaires de Port-Royal-des-Champs, et après son décanat, finit sa vie aux Carmélites de Saint-Jacques de Paris”. Feuardent indique qu’il s’agit peut-être d’une refrappe, alors que cet exemplaire semble bien être une frappe d’époque.
Historical background
FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE DE PARIS
The Faculty of Medicine of Paris is one of the four components of the University of Paris, with the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Letters. In 1789, it consisted of one hundred and fifty-two doctors, seven of whom were appointed to teach materia medica, physiology, pathology, pharmacy, childbirth, French surgery and Latin surgery. It was headed by a dean, who was also responsible for forming the University tribunal with the deans of Theology and Law, and the four prosecutors of the Faculty of Arts..
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