Live auction - fme_739104 - THE CONVENTION Matrice, tirage uniface, Maxime Robespierre et Cécile Renault
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 350 € |
| Maximum bid : | 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 June 2022 20:16:25 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Matrice, tirage uniface, Maxime Robespierre et Cécile Renault
Date: (1794)
Metal : alloy
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 31,75 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, des taches noires au revers. Présence de coups et rayures, notamment au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : J’AI VOULU VOIR COMMENT ETAIT FAIT UN TIRAN - MAXIM ROBESPIERRE LE X THERMID AN II // SA FIN EST - CELLE DU CRIME // CEC. RENAUD.
Obverse description : Bustes de Maxime Robespierre et Cécile Renault dans deux ovales en regard, séparés par une baguette posée sur le niveau et surmontée de l’oeil rayonnant et du bonnet de la Liberté.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
La médaille est classée sous l’année 1794 (28 juillet) d’après l’ouvrage de Hennin et son étude sur le sujet (cf. n°597).
Historical background
THE CONVENTION
(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)
The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.
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