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fjt_254168 - PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS PERCEMENT DU PREMIER TUNNEL DU LOETSCHBERG OU LÖTSCHBERG 1911

PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / BRIDGES AND ROADS PERCEMENT DU PREMIER TUNNEL DU LOETSCHBERG OU LÖTSCHBERG AU
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Type : PERCEMENT DU PREMIER TUNNEL DU LOETSCHBERG OU LÖTSCHBERG
Date: 1911
Metal : silver
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : losange ARGENT
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Remarquable travail de gravure, très novateur pour l’époque

Obverse


Obverse legend : NOVBRE 1906 / AVRIL 1911 .
Obverse description : Quatre mineurs se congratulant au percement final du tunnel signé René Grégoire 1911.

Reverse


Reverse legend : AUX COLLABORATEUR ET OUVRIERS DU TUNNEL DU LŒTSCHBERG , LONGUEUR 14536 M.
Reverse description : Sept ouvriers manipulant une foreuse hydraulique allant à gauche.

Commentary


Ce tunnel qui relie en Suisse les cantons de Berne et du Valais est présenté à http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_du_L%C3%B6tschberg mais il a récemment été doublé par un nouveau tunnel du même nom, mais de 34,6 kilomètres de long, voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_de_base_du_L%C3%B6tschberg.

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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