fme_466765 - SECOND REPUBLIC L’Union fait la force
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Price : 85.00 €
Type : L’Union fait la force
Date: 1848
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver d'après Augustin Dupré
Weight : 10,53 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron. Présence de légers coups dans les champs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GENIE DU MAL - VAINCU 23. 24 FEVRIER; À L’EXERGUE : 1848.
Obverse description : Figure nue assise à droite, la jambe entourée d’un serpent, l’épée brisée dans sa main droite
Signé : MONTAGNY. F. sous le socle.
Reverse
Reverse legend : L'UNION - FAIT - LA FORCE ; À L'EXERGUE 1848 .
Reverse description : Hercule assis à droite sur sa léonté, sa massue à ses pieds brisant un faisceau.
Historical background
SECOND REPUBLIC
(02/24/1848-12/2/1852)
Louis-Napoleon was elected on December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He did not have the right to run again in 1852. Louis-Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and the commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million YES and only 640,000 NO. Victor Hugo went into exile on December 12. The following year, he will publish "Napoléon le Petit" which will earn Louis-Napoleon, who has become Napoleon III in the meantime, this famous sentence: "Napoleon le Petit by Victor le Grand".
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