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fme_881879 - THE CONVENTION Médaille, Louis XVII

THE CONVENTION Médaille, Louis XVII AU
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Type : Médaille, Louis XVII
Date: 1793
Metal : tin
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,77 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie médaille en étain avec une partie de son brillant de frappe dans les champs. Présence de quelques rayures. Légère usure

Obverse


Obverse legend : LOUIS XVII ROI DE FRANCE....
Obverse description : Buste drapé de profil à droite. Signé : W. M..

Reverse


Reverse legend : SI TOT / QU’IL HAIT UN ROI / DOIT ON CESSER / DE L’ETRE? / (CROIX) / 1793.
Reverse description : Légende en 5 lignes.

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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