Live auction - fjt_1167370 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française 1694
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Live starting : Type : Académie française
Date: 1694
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, légèrement irisée. Légère usure et quelques faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection Henri Labouret
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOVIS. LE. GRAND. ROY. DE. FRANCE. (ÉTOILE).
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XIV, signé R, type Guéant Prieur 418G.
Obverse translation : Louis le Grand, Roi.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .PROTECTEVR. DE. L'ACADEMIE. FRANCOISE. A L'IMMOR-TALITE EN TROIS LIGNES - .1694..
Reverse description : A L'IMMOR-TALITE en trois lignes dans une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
Le buste est spécifique à ce jeton et décrit dans le Guéant Prieur comme extrêmement rare.
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.
The bust is specific to this token and is described in the Guéant Prieur as extremely rare. 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.
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.
The bust is specific to this token and is described in the Guéant Prieur as extremely rare. 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.
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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