E-auction 593-555780 - fme_950982 - GUERRE DE 1870-1871 Médaille, Combat d’Orléans
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| Estimate : | 40 € |
| Price : | 41 € |
| Maximum bid : | 43 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 August 2024 20:10:20 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Combat d’Orléans
Date: 1870
Mint name / Town : 45 - Orléans
Metal : brass
Diameter : 36,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,44 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des concrétions blanches dans le creux des reliefs. Restes de brillant dans les champs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : COMBATS D’ORLÉANS / 11 OCTOBRE / 1870 / - / 5000 COMBATTANTS / ARRÊTENT PENDANT UNE / DEMI-JOURNÉE / L’ARMÉE BAVAROISE FORTE DE / 45,000 HOMMES / ET DE / 150 CANONS.
Obverse description : Légende en dix lignes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : AUX SOLDATS MORTS POUR LA PATRIE.
Reverse description : Écu tourelé aux armes d’Orléans posé sur une couronne ; signature HERLUISON EDITEUR.
Historical background
GUERRE DE 1870-1871
(1870-1871)
In a foreword, Jean-Pierre Collignon writes: "In 1870, France was surprised because it had to be and because it deserved it. The resulting war demonstrated that the imperial army did not had been able to play its role of cover which would have given the nation time to run to arms and launch its masses of combatants against the enemy, because minds were not prepared, in the government, in the high command and in public opinion; the army was sacrificed in an unequal and badly conducted fight before the necessary was done to allow the country which was counting on not participating directly in the fight to arm itself under its protection. when this one will have succumbed under the number, it will be too late so that the rising in masses can overcome, for lack of cadres, the latter then surrounded in Metz or prisoners of the Germans.This is the whole history of the war of 1870.".
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