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fme_987803 - THE CONVENTION Médaille, Bicentenaire de la naissance de Maximilien Robespierre

THE CONVENTION Médaille, Bicentenaire de la naissance de Maximilien Robespierre MS
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Type : Médaille, Bicentenaire de la naissance de Maximilien Robespierre
Date: 1979
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver SIMON Georges (1906-1982)
Weight : 158,03 g.
Edge : Lisse + Corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne d’abondance BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène marron claire, rayure au revers, tranche usée et tachée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ROBESPIERRE.
Obverse description : Portrait de profil à gauche, de Robespierre, sur une cocarde tricolore formant le champ, signé : G. SIMON.

Reverse


Reverse legend : “ / J’AI L’EX / PERIENCE DV / PASSE, JE VOIS / L’AVENIR, QVEL / AMI DE LA PATRIE / PEVT VOVLOIR SVR / VIVRE AV MOMENT / OV IL N’EST PLVS / PERMIS DE LA / SERVIR ET DE / DEFENDRE / L’INNOCEN / CE OPPRI / MEE / “ // 1758 / 1794 / 1958.
Reverse description : Légende en 16 lignes et trois dates en 3 lignes. Sur les Tables de la Loi, trois millésimes rappelant les années de sa naissance et de sa mort, ainsi que du deuxième centenaire de sa venue au monde. Inscrit sur un bonnet phrygien, un extrait du discours de Thermidor.

Commentary


Avec sa boite ronde bordeaux cartonnée de la Monnaie de Paris.
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794), est un avocat et homme politique français. Il est l’une des principales figures de la Révolution française et de la Terreur. (Cf. Wikipédia).

Historical background


THE CONVENTION

(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)

The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.

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