Live auction - fme_912400 - THE CONVENTION Médaille, Carte de membre, Société populaire de Darnétal
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | 250 € |
| Maximum bid : | 250 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 May 2024 15:13:30 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Carte de membre, Société populaire de Darnétal
Date: (1793-1794)
Mint name / Town : 76 - Darnetal
Metal : various
Diameter : 60 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,30 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Verre cassé au revers. Quelques taches sur le papier
Obverse
Obverse legend : SOCIETE POPULAIRE DE DARNETAL UNITE INDIVISB.LE DE LA REPUBL.E LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNIT.E OU LA MORT // TAB / DES / LOIX.
Obverse description : Allégorie féminine assise, accoudée à la table des lois, tenant une lance coiffée d’un bonnet phrygien, entourée d’une couronne de chêne.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SEMESTRE DE VENTOZ - 2EME ANNÉE REP. - DE // N°73 / MEMBRE P.R PIQUET FILS / TRESORIER BERNARD / AUBER[T OU C?].
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 4 lignes.
Commentary
Carte en papier, conservée dans une monture en cuivre avec deux verres (celui du revers étant brisé) protégeant la carte inscrite à l’encre au nom du membre n°73, D.r ou M.r Piquet fils.
Diamètre sans la bélière : 56 mm.
Diamètre sans la bélière : 56 mm.
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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