Live auction - fme_968993 - LOUIS XVI Médaille, Réunion des États Généraux
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Réunion des États Généraux
Date: 1789
Metal : alloy
Diameter : 44 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,88 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des taches noires d’oxydation. Petite usure. Présence de quelques rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Un paysan, représentant l’ordre du Tiers-Etat, soutient à lui seul la charge du royaume de France, figuré par l’écusson à trois fleurs de lis, surmonté de la couronne royale. Ce paysan a près de lui une bêche et une ruche, et il succombe sous le poids qu’il supporte. A gauche, un guerrier casqué, cuirassé et l’épée à la main, représentant la Noblesse, passe la main gauche derrière l’écusson pour avoir l’air de le soutenir; une branche de laurier est près de son bras. A droite, l’évêque, crossé et mitré, représentant le clergé, soutient légèrement l’écusson de la main gauche. Sa crosse est ornée d’une branche de chêne, symbole de civisme.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LES: ETAT: GENERAUX: TENU EN FRANCE SOU LE REGNE DE LOUIS XVI: 1789: // CY. DESOUS / ***LA FRANCE** / *FIGURE SOUS: UN / **GLOBE: SOUTE: NUE / DU PEUPLE LE CLERGE / ****ET LA. NOBLESSE / **AIDE AU PREMIER LA / RUCHE REPRESENTE / **LES TROIS: ORDRES / *****REUNIES** / VI.VE LE. ROY**.
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 11 lignes.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
In 1789, events will accelerate and cause the fall of royalty. If on May 5, the King opened the meeting of the States General in front of 1,200 deputies (doubling of the third), in the face of the stagnation of the debates, the Third Estate proclaimed itself in the National Assembly with certain deputies of the two other Orders, the Nobility and the Clergy. On June 20, it is the Oath of the Jeu de Paume of Versailles. On June 23, the King wants to suspend the debates, (intervention of Mirabeau: "we are here by the will of the people, we will only get out by the force of bayonets"). The National Constituent Assembly is formed by the three Orders on July 9. The King dismisses Necker on July 11, but will recall him after the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. Bailly is the first mayor of Paris, appointed on July 15. Following the Great Fear which spreads in the countryside, on the night of August 4, it is the abolition of privileges and feudal rights. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is voted on August 26, 1789.
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