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fjt_702511 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française, émission de 1789 n.d.
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Type : Académie française, émission de 1789
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,46 g.
Edge : cannelée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI DE FR. - ET DE NAVARR..
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Louis XVI, signé DU VIV., type Guéant Prieur 752A.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROTECTEUR DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE A L'IMMORTALITE EN TROIS LIGNES.
Reverse description : dans une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
Ces jetons étaient distribués aux membres de l'Académie lors de leurs réunions du lundi, jeudi et samedi. On appelait " jetonniers " les académiciens remarqués pour leur assiduité aux réunions. Celui-ci a pu, par exemple, appartenir à Condorcet.
Historical background
FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE
The French Academy was founded in 1635, under the reign of Louis XIII, by Cardinal Richelieu, with the aim of embellishing and perfecting the French language, symbol of the power of the King and the State. It had to be "perfect, clear and precise, capable of marrying the twists and turns of thought, of supplanting Latin and of finishing off lexical and stylistic misuse." Monitoring the language, and therefore the writings, was also a means of thwarting political intrigues... The Academy receives as its seal the motto "to immortality" with a crown of laurels, and the care of writing the Dictionary of the language French. Reading advice: MASSON F., "History of the French Academy, 1629-1793", Paris, 1912.
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