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fme_1042148 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Sainte Solange, Patronne du Berry

V REPUBLIC Médaille, Sainte Solange, Patronne du Berry MS
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Type : Médaille, Sainte Solange, Patronne du Berry
Date: (1983)
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BONCOEUR Jean-Louis (1911-1997)
Weight : 4,24 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Corne 1*
Coments on the condition:
Présence de minimes rayures
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : SOLANGE PATRONNE DU BERRY.
Obverse description : Portrait imaginaire de sainte Solange, qui vécut à la fin du IXe siècle. Signé : J. L. B.

Reverse


Reverse legend : SANCTA / SOLANGIA / 1878.
Reverse description : Pour avoir refusé de céder à ses exigences, Solange est décapitée par Rainulfe, sire de Culan ; elle prend sa tête entre ses mains et la porte jusqu’au ruisseau voisin, l’Ouatier. En raison de ce prodige, son tombeau devint lieu de pélerinage. À gauche, un poinçon: corne d’abondance 1* corne d’abondance .

Commentary


Diamètre sans anneau et bélière : 18 mm.
De son vrai nom Edouard Levêque, Jean-Louis Boncoeur est professeur honoraire de dessin et président du comité George Sand à La Châtre.
Diameter without ring and bail: 18 mm. His real name is Edouard Levêque, Jean-Louis Boncoeur is an honorary professor of drawing and president of the George Sand committee at La Châtre

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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