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fjt_567781 - CORPORATIONS OFFICIERS DES EAUX DE PARIS 1788

CORPORATIONS OFFICIERS DES EAUX DE PARIS AU
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Type : OFFICIERS DES EAUX DE PARIS
Date: 1788
Metal : silver
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,85 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ADMINISTRATION ROYALE DES EAUX DE PARIS ET ENVIRONS ; À L'EXERGUE : 1788.
Obverse description : Armes de Paris.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LE DIEU DU FEU DEVIENT LE DIEU DES EAUX.
Reverse description : Vulcain assis à droite sous les traits du fleuve Seine, tenant un marteau et renversant une urne sur laquelle on lit Seine, derrière lui le feu d'une forge et une enclume. Signé DUV.

Historical background


CORPORATIONS

In Rome, groups of artisans already existed: forming a college placed under the protection of a divinity, with a common house and fund. In medieval Europe, probably from religious brotherhoods, economic groups were formed between merchants called hanse or ghilde.. With the development of trade, craftsmen organized themselves into trade bodies or communities which brought together all those who practiced the same profession: masters, journeymen or apprentices.. To enter the body, you had to "swear" the profession. Alongside, there were free professions that could be practiced by all.. Each corps was headed by a collegial management responsible for enforcing the regulations of the trade, protecting the trade from competition and directing the mutual benefit society.. At the end of the 17th century, the king began to sell the functions of jurors and corporate trustees as hereditary offices, which led to serious financial difficulties at a time when the corporations no longer met the new economic requirements of the development of industry and business concentration. It is also in England that the corporations disappeared spontaneously because of the industrial revolution.. The corporations will be abolished in France in 1791 by the Constituent Assembly.

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