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fme_466944 - SECOND REPUBLIC Journées de Juin

SECOND REPUBLIC Journées de Juin AU
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Type : Journées de Juin
Date: 1848
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : red copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Engraver Montagny
Weight : 9,85 g.
Edge : Lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène, légèrement irisée autour des motifs. Coups sur la tranche
Catalogue references :
COLLIGNON 616

Obverse

Obverse legend : DENIS AUGUSTE AFFRE ARCHEVEQUE - DE PARIS NE 23 7RE 1793.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche, signé : Y M.

Reverse

Reverse legend : BONUS PASTOR DAT VITAM SUAM PRO OVIBUS SUIS 1848.
Reverse description : Ange, les mains jointes, priant de face, en génuflexion sur un socle ; signé : MONTAGNY.
Reverse translation : Le bon pasteur donne sa vie pour ses brebis.

Commentary

Mort de l’archevêque Denis Auguste Affre
Cet exemplaire se retrouve au musée Carnavalet : http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/272293#infos-principales
La légende du revers correspond à une citation de la Bible, Jn 10, 11.

Historical background

SECOND REPUBLIC

(24/02/1848-2/12/1852)

Louis Napoleon was elected December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He had no right to represent in 1852. Louis Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million and only 640,000 YES NO. Victor Hugo was exiled on 12 December. The following year, he published "The Little Napoleon" which earned Louis Napoleon became Napoleon III meantime this famous sentence: "Napoleon the Little by Victor the Great".

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