Live auction - fjt_1167377 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française 1717
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Live starting : Type : Académie française
Date: 1717
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,82 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, légèrement irisée. De l’usure sur les reliefs
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection Henri Labouret
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XV. ROY - DE FR. ET DE NAV.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XV, signature DU. VIVIER.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROTECTEUR DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE // A / L'IMMOR / TALITE EN TROIS LIGNES ; À L'EXERGUE : .1717..
Reverse description : dans une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
Manque au Feuardent. Feuardent repertorie un exemplaire similaire mais sans date.
Guéant date le buste du début des années 1730.
Guéant date le buste du début des années 1730.
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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