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fjt_127989 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française n.d.

FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française MS
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Price : 24.00 €
Type : Académie française
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,41 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de grande qualité. Le buste “ ressort ” très bien et une patine orangée commence à se créer
Catalogue references :
F.4381  - Guéant - Prieur752 B

Obverse

Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI DE FR. - ET DE NAVARRE.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Louis XVI, signé DU VIV., type Guéant Prieur 752B.

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. C’est cet exemplaire qui illustre le type dans le Guéant Prieur.

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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