Live auction - fjt_1167253 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française 1695
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Live starting : Type : Académie française
Date: 1695
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,89 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine grise hétérogène, légèrement irisée, avec de l’usure sur les hauts reliefs. Quelques rayures
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection Henri Labouret
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOVIS. LE. GRAND. - ROY. DE. FRANCE.*..
Obverse description : Buste laurée à droite de Louis XIV, Feuardent 230, type Guéant Prieur 418G. Signé : R.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .PROTECTEVR. DE. L'ACADEMIE. FRANCOISE. // A / L'IMMOR / TALITE // .1695..
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, Bossuet, Boileau ou Charles Perrault. Cette date manque complètement à Feuardent.
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, may have belonged to Racine, Bossuet, Boileau, or Charles Perrault. This date is completely missing from Feuardent.
Celui-ci a pu, par exemple, appartenir à Racine, Bossuet, Boileau ou Charles Perrault. Cette date manque complètement à Feuardent.
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, may have belonged to Racine, Bossuet, Boileau, or Charles Perrault. This date is completely missing from Feuardent.
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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