Live auction - fme_1157466 - FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Médaille, Démolition de la forteresse de la Bastille
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Démolition de la forteresse de la Bastille
Date: 1790
Metal : tin
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,84 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise avec de l’usure sur les reliefs et des faiblesses de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection JPB Nantes
Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : JE REND LE D.IER / SOUPIRE.
Obverse description : Trois ouvriers détruisent les dernières assises des murs de la Bastille, qui est ici le symbole du despotisme, ainsi que l’indique l’inscription de l’exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DU SEIN / DE MA MERE / JE FUT ELEVER / DANS LES AIRS / LA LIBERTE MA / REDUIT EN / POUSSIERE / 1790.
Reverse description : Légende en 8 lignes.
Historical background
FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
(20/06/1789-21/09/1792)
On June 17, 1789, the "States General" set themselves up as the "National Assembly". On June 20, the deputies of the Third Estate, as well as 149 representatives of the Clergy and 2 of the nobility, meet in the Salle du Jeu de Paume, in Versailles and swear not to separate until the Constitution is written. This is the famous "Oath of the tennis court". On July 9, this assembly became the "National Constituent Assembly". This assembly, which then had 1,200 deputies, sat first at Versailles and then at the Tuileries. From September 3 to 13, it votes the Constitution, which the King accepts. Its mission accomplished, it separated on September 30, 1791. It was immediately replaced by the Legislative Assembly..
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