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fjt_433740 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française 1705

FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française XF
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Académie française
Date: 1705
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Catalogue references :
F.4373

Obverse

Obverse legend : LOVIS LE GRAND - ROY DE FRANCE.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XIV, signé d’un monogramme inédit de Thomas Bernard.

Reverse

Reverse legend : PROTECTEVR DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE. - .1705..
Reverse description : A L'IMMOR-TALITE en trois lignes dans une couronne de laurier.

Commentary

Ces jetons étaient distribués aux membres de l'Académie lors de leurs réunions du lundi, jeudi et samedi. On appelait " jetonniers " les académiciens remarqués pour leur assiduité aux réunions.
On note ici une utilisation tardive du V dans la légende de ce jeton non recensé par Feuardent.
Buste très rare.

Historical background

FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE

The French Academy was founded in 1635, under the reign of Louis XIII, by Cardinal Richelieu, with the aim of embellishing and perfecting the French language, symbol of the power of the King and the State. It had to be "perfect, clear and precise, capable of marrying the twists and turns of thought, of supplanting Latin and of finishing off lexical and stylistic misuse." Monitoring the language, and therefore the writings, was also a means of thwarting political intrigues... The Academy receives as its seal the motto "to immortality" with a crown of laurels, and the care of writing the Dictionary of the language French. Reading advice: MASSON F., "History of the French Academy, 1629-1793", Paris, 1912.

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