E-auction 692-746249 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Bicentenaire de la Révolution, Comité de salut public
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Type : Médaille, Bicentenaire de la Révolution, Comité de salut public
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 77 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver J. L. COPPIN
Weight : 235,78 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BR
Puncheon : corne BR
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure, rayures et taches d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : LE COMITÉ DE / SALUT PUBLIC.
Obverse description : La République tenant un faisceau posé sur un trophée d’armes, dans un camp militaire.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BICENTENAIRE / DE LA / RÉVOLUTION / FRANÇAISE.
Reverse description : Légende en 4 lignes horizontales.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans une boîte bleue cartonnée de la Monnaie de Paris.
Le Comité de salut public est le premier organe du gouvernement révolutionnaire mis en place par la Convention pour faire face aux dangers qui menacent la République au printemps 1793 (invasion et guerre civile), le deuxième étant le Comité de sûreté générale. Il se réunit au deuxième étage du pavillon de Flore, rebaptisé pavillon de l'Égalité.
Medal kept in a blue cardboard box from the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint). The Committee of Public Safety was the first body of the revolutionary government established by the Convention to address the dangers threatening the Republic in the spring of 1793 (invasion and civil war), the second being the Committee of General Security. It met on the second floor of the Pavillon de Flore, renamed the Pavillon de l'Égalité (Equality Pavilion).
Le Comité de salut public est le premier organe du gouvernement révolutionnaire mis en place par la Convention pour faire face aux dangers qui menacent la République au printemps 1793 (invasion et guerre civile), le deuxième étant le Comité de sûreté générale. Il se réunit au deuxième étage du pavillon de Flore, rebaptisé pavillon de l'Égalité.
Medal kept in a blue cardboard box from the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint). The Committee of Public Safety was the first body of the revolutionary government established by the Convention to address the dangers threatening the Republic in the spring of 1793 (invasion and civil war), the second being the Committee of General Security. It met on the second floor of the Pavillon de Flore, renamed the Pavillon de l'Égalité (Equality Pavilion).
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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