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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 27 April 2021 19:30:33 |
Type : LES NEUF SOEURS
Date: 1778
Metal : brass
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,05 g.
Edge : Lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L :. LES NEUF SOEURS (FLEUR À CINQ PÉTALES).
Obverse description : 50 c.
Reverse
Commentary
Loge fondée en 1776. Nous pouvons lire très attentivement dans l’ouvrage de Marc Labouret les informations qui suivent. “Le nom de cette loge se réfère aux neuf muses des arts et des sciences. Cette loge regroupa de nombreux intellectuels, savants et penseurs des Lumières. Voltaire fut initié par cette loge. Benjamin Franklin, ambassadeur en France des colonies anglaises d’Amérique joua un role important pour convaincre la France de combattre pour l’indépendance américaine. Franklin deviendra vénérable de cette loge. Cette médaille serait frappée à l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la nouvelle fonction de Franklin au sein de cette loge. Il n’est pas à exclure que ce jeton soit postérieur à l’extinction de la loge en 1848. Dans ce cas, il serait imputable à une autre loge homonyme à Bordeaux ou à Paris...”.
Historical background
FREEMASONRY
The compass and the square are very often associated in an ambivalent symbol of balance: fixity and mobility, passive and active, matter and spirit.. The compass is the tool of the Creator and of the great Architect of the Universe. The spacing of the branches of the compass obeys precise rules and varies according to the three degrees: apprentice, companion, master. The Napoleonic era, in the activity of lodges as in that of many groups, saw a flowering after the terrible years of the revolutionary period. Masonic activity, rid of its republican theories and firmly controlled by a Grand-Master appointed by the Emperor, experienced a vigor in unity never found since.. It is considered that each regiment, each garrison, each city had its Lodge. The testimonies that the sumptuous tokens of the period leave us show that these lodges were rich and influential.. The symbolism is sought after, without comparison with the later eras, which were much more conventional, even bland or destitute at the beginning of the 20th century.. Freemasonry had more than a thousand lodges spread over one hundred and thirty departments and more than sixty thousand Brothers.
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