Live auction - fme_917879 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille d’honneur des Chemins de Fer
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| Estimate : | 10 € |
| Price : | 5 € |
| Maximum bid : | 5 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 May 2024 16:07:11 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille d’honneur des Chemins de Fer
Date: 1956
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 79 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver GUIRAUD Georges (1901-1989)
Weight : 17,98 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : corne BR
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène. Présence de quelques rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE / FRANÇAISE.
Obverse description : Marianne à gauche, coiffée d’un bonnet phrygien, entre deux branches de laurier. Chemin de fer en arrière plan. Signé : GEORGES / GUIRAUD. Corne d’abondance BR à l’exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MÉDAILLE D’HONNEUR - DES CHEMINS DE FER // P. LIEVRE / 1956.
Reverse description : Locomotive et TGV vus de face, branche de laurier à gauche.
Commentary
Médaille décernée à P. Lièvre
Diamètre sans bélière : 31,5 mm
Ruban rayé bleu, blanc et rouge.
Diamètre sans bélière : 31,5 mm
Ruban rayé bleu, blanc et rouge.
Historical background
IV REPUBLIC
(16/01/1947-8/01/1959)
Characterized by a parliamentary regime coupled with great ministerial instability, the Fourth Republic has the particularity of never having been officially proclaimed. Indeed, De Gaulle, when he arrived in Paris on August 25, 1944, refused to do so on the pretext that the Republic had never ceased to exist. Considering that the French State of Marshal Pétain was only a simple state of affairs, he considers that the Republic survived in free France and his birth certificate must then be June 18, 1940. However, his departure, the January 20, 1946, and the referendum of October 13, 1946 approving a new Constitution, mark the official beginning of this republic. It knows two presidents: Vincent Auriol (16/01/1947 - 23/12/1953) and René Coty (23/12/1953 - 8/1/1959). The open crisis caused by the revolt of the army of Algeria leads, in 1958, to its fall which is confirmed by the adoption of a new constitution on September 28, 1958. Nevertheless, it does not cease definitively until the 8 January 1959 when General de Gaulle was installed as President of the Fifth Republic.
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