E-auction 606-581066 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille, Edouard Herriot
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Type : Médaille, Edouard Herriot
Date: 1952
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 80,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver CORBIN Raymond (1907-2002)
Weight : 308,80 g.
Edge : gravée : L. COFFIN DEPUTE + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec quelques concrétions blanches dans le creux des reliefs. Faible usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : EDOUARD - HERRIOT.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche, signé : R. CORBIN.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HOMMAGE DE L’ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE A SON PRESIDENT - 80E ANNIVERSAIRE. 5 JUILLET 1952.
Reverse description : Vue sur le bâtiment de l’Assemblée Nationale et le Pont de la Concorde.
Commentary
Cette médaille a été décernée au député du Cher, Lucien Louis Antoine Coffin (1900-1964). Ce dernier fut député de 1945 à 1955. Prisonnier en Allemagne de 1940 à 1945, Lucien Coffin anima le Comité de résistance de son camp et y créa un groupe socialiste. Il sera nommé secrétaire d’Etat à la France d’outre-mer en 1950 et 1951, il siégera ensuite à la Commission des territoires d'outre-mer et au Conseil supérieur de la France d'outre-mer .
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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