fjt_230440 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française 1693
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Académie française
Date: 1693
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOVIS. LE. GRAND. - ROY. DE. FRANCE..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XIV, signé N , type Guéant Prieur 404F.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .PROTECTEVR. DE. L'ACADEMIE. FRANCOISE. - A L'IMMORTALITE EN TROIS LIGNES .1693..
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 Racine ou à Bossuet. C’est cet exemplaire qui illustre le type de buste dans le Guéant Prieur.
These tokens were distributed to members of the Academy during their meetings on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Academicians noted for their regular attendance at meetings were called \\\"jetonniers.\\\" This one, for example, could have belonged to Racine or Bossuet. This example illustrates the type of bust in the Guéant Prieur.
Celui-ci a pu, par exemple, appartenir à Racine ou à Bossuet. C’est cet exemplaire qui illustre le type de buste dans le Guéant Prieur.
These tokens were distributed to members of the Academy during their meetings on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Academicians noted for their regular attendance at meetings were called \\\"jetonniers.\\\" This one, for example, could have belonged to Racine or Bossuet. This example illustrates the type of bust in the 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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