fjt_07535 - FRENCH ACADEMY / ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE Académie française, émission vers 1733 n.d.
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Price : 45.00 €
Type : Académie française, émission vers 1733
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XV signé JCR [n°307], type Guéant Prieur 556, variante inédite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROTECTEUR DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCOISE - A L'IMMORTALITE EN TROIS LIGNES .
Reverse description : dans une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
Ce buste est une variante non répertoriée dans le Guéant Prieur, on pourrait lui attribuer la lettre G : on note à côté de la signature une sorte d’ondulé.
This bust is a variant not listed in the Guéant Prieur, we could attribute the letter G to it: we note next to the signature a sort of wavy
This bust is a variant not listed in the Guéant Prieur, we could attribute the letter G to it: we note next to the signature a sort of wavy
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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