Live auction - fme_897528 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille, Flore, Offert par le général de Bénouville
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| End of the sale : | 09 April 2024 18:20:43 |
Type : Médaille, Flore, Offert par le général de Bénouville
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 49,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver LAMOURDEDIEU Raoul (1877-1953) / DUBOIS Henri (1859-1943)
Weight : 58,52 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Médaille argentée présentant de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : FLORE.
Obverse description : Représentation de trois femmes, type les trois Grâces, fabriquant des guirlandes de fleurs. Signé : LRDEDIEU.
Reverse
Reverse legend : OFFERT / PAR / LE GENERAL / DE BENOUVILLE / DEPUTE.
Reverse description : Légende en 5 lignes dans un médaillon entouré d’une couronne de chêne et laurier. Signé : H. DUBOIS.
Commentary
La médaille a été offerte par le député, Pierre de Bénouville (1914-2001), résistant qui fut l’un des quatre généraux de brigade FFI. Il sera député pour l’Ille-et-Vilaine de 1951 à 1955, de 1958 à 1962, puis Paris de 1970 à 1981, puis de 1982 à 1993.
https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/638.
https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/638.
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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