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fme_461622 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille d’hommage à Charles Niélon

BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille d’hommage à Charles Niélon AU
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Médaille d’hommage à Charles Niélon
Date: 1833
Mint name / Town : Belgique
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MICHAUT Auguste-François (1786-1879)
Weight : 47,61 g.
Edge : Lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille en bon état mais avec une patine sombre un peu terne. Traces de manipulation
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la descendance directe du graveur Auguste-François Michaut (1786-1879)

Obverse


Obverse legend : CHARLES NIELLON - GÉNÉRAL BELGE.
Obverse description : Buste gauche de Charles Niellon.

Reverse


Reverse legend : AUX BRAVES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE - MDCCCXXXIII // LIERRE / XVIII OCTOBRE / MDCCCXXX / TURNHOUT / II AOUT / MDCCCXXXI.

Commentary


La signature est à peine visible, avec seulement la fin du nom de Michaut [MICH]AUT FECIT.

Le général Charles Niellon (né en 1795, mort en 1871) est un Français d'origine bourguignonne. Il a participé à la révolution belge de 1830 et à la campagne des Dix-Jours. Il crée à cette occasion un corps franc appelé « les chasseurs Niellon » avec lequel il participe ensuite au siège et à la libération d'Anvers..

Historical background


BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I

(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)

Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.

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