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fjt_958768 - ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns Compagnie d’éclairage au gaz d’Orléans 1840

ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns Compagnie d’éclairage au gaz d’Orléans XF
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Type : Compagnie d’éclairage au gaz d’Orléans
Date: (1845-1860)
Date: 1840
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,61 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : main ARGENT
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire superbe

Obverse


Obverse description : Une usine et une rue éclairées par un lampadaire.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ÉCLAIRAGE AU GAZ / USINES/ D’ORLÉANS.
Reverse description : au-dessus d’une couronne de chêne.

Commentary


Le gaz naturel était connu depuis l'Antiquité notamment en Perse mais ce n'est qu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle que l'idée d'un éclairage au gaz apparut. Le procédé ne se répandit que dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle notamment à partir de 1820. Le gaz utilisé était obtenu par distillation de la houille et servait à éclairer les rues puis les logements. Il servit par la suite comme chauffage mais disparut pour l'éclairage en raison de la diffusion de l'éclairage électrique dès 1880.
Natural gas had been known since antiquity, particularly in Persia, but it was not until the end of the 18th century that the idea of gas lighting appeared. The process did not spread until the first half of the 19th century, particularly from 1820. The gas used was obtained by distillation of coal and was used to light the streets and then the dwellings. It was later used as heating but disappeared for lighting due to the spread of electric lighting from 1880.

Historical background


ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns

Founded on the ruins of the Gallic city of Cenabum, the city takes the name of the emperor Aurélien, Aurelianum. The city was a bishopric from the 4th century then capital of a Frankish kingdom in the 6th century. Forming a county under the Carolingians, the Orleans region then became the territorial base of Capetian power. Endowed with a university since 1309, it was then besieged by the English but delivered by Joan of Arc in May 1429. The city then entered history several times during the Wars of Religion, the Fronde or in 1870 when it is occupied by von der Tann.

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