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fjt_755355 - PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS Louis XV n.d.

PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS Louis XV VF
20.00 €(Approx. 21.80$ | 16.80£)
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Type : Louis XV
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : s.l.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,83 g.
Coments on the condition:
Patine claire et brillante. Quelques rayures et traces d’usure sont visibles à l’avers et au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la Collection MARINECHE

Obverse


Obverse legend : LUD. XV. REX. CHRISTIANISS.
Obverse description : Buste de Louis XV [n° 298].
Obverse translation : Louis XV, roi très chrétien.

Reverse


Reverse legend : NOVUM. DECUS. ADDIDIT. URBI. ; À L'EXERGUE : PONTS. ET. CHAUSSEES.
Reverse description : Le Pont Royal devant un paysage de plaines boisées.
Reverse translation : Il a ajouté une nouvelle parure à la ville.

Commentary


Pascal Van Waeyenbergh nous communique : “Le pont représenté sur ce jeton ne peut pas être le pont de Neuilly comme l’indique Feuardent puisque celui-ci n'est reconstruit en pierre qu'en 1772 et que de plus, son environnement de l'époque ne ressemble en rien à la scène figurée au revers. D'après mes recherches, ce jeton a été frappé à l'occasion de la reconstruction en pierre du Pont Royal. L'architecture de ce dernier ainsi que son environnement à la fin du XVIIIème siècle correspondent en tous points à la représentation figurée sur le revers de ce jeton. De plus, le Pont Royal fut terminé en 1689 (date correspondant au portrait âgé du roi) et la construction fut financée par Louis XIV en personne, événements qui méritaient bien la frappe d'un jeton commémoratif. Pour plus de détails mon article à http://jetons-royaux.blog4ever.com/blog/lire-article-593942-9663534-reinterpretation_d_un_jeton_de_louis_xiv_.html .

Historical background


PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS

The French Monarchy had long cherished the project of ensuring the construction of thoroughfares which usually fell within the competence of local authorities, provinces, lords or communities.. For essentially financial reasons, the project only really came to fruition in 1716 with the creation of a hierarchical corps, on the model of the corps of military engineers, responsible for the fortifications, which had been organized some twenty-five years earlier.. Initially, the corps des Ponts et Chaussées comprised an inspector general, an architect first engineer, three inspectors general and twenty-one engineers, who had to design and build roads and engineering structures with sub-engineers recruited by their care. The task entrusted to them corresponds to a significant shift in the priorities of the State. In 1716, Louis XIV had been dead for almost a year, leaving France exhausted from long years of war. Concerns of military grandeur are almost immediately followed by the pursuit of economic power which must be achieved by facilitating trade through more and safer transportation infrastructure.. Offering more ramified service possibilities than rivers and canals, roads will be the subject of repeated investments by the State, allowing bridge engineers to appear as the privileged servants of its economic plans.. Text taken from the excellent: http://www. enpc. fr/teachings/Picon/CorpsPC. html.

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