fme_1008175 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille, 100e anniversaire de l’institution de la médaille militaire
80.00 €(Approx. 93.60$ | 69.60£)
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Médaille, 100e anniversaire de l’institution de la médaille militaire
Date: 1952
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DROPSY Henry (1885-1969)
Weight : 37,62 g.
Edge : en creux : LES MÉDAILLES DE MONTPELLIER AU COLONEL + corne BRONZE + GAULTIER 16-19 OCT 1952
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Traces de concrétions vertes et nettoyage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LES - CARREFOURS - DU HAUT MÉRITE .
Obverse description : Allégorie de la victoire couronnant deux hommes en nudité héroïque, l’un debout tenant une lance, l’autre assis signant le bas d’un parchemin. Signé : H. DROPSY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 100E ANNIVERSAIRE DE L’INSTITUTION DE LA MEDAILLE MILITAIRE / 21 MARS 1852.
Reverse description : Sur une ancre, une panoplie militaire.
Commentary
Médaille décernée sur la tranche au colonel Gaultier.
Il s’agit ici du général Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) commençant l’armée par une mobilisation en 1917, affecté au 4e régiment de zouaves où il sera successivement caporal, sergent, puis aspirant. Il sera nommé sous-lieutenant en 1919 au 1er Régiment étranger (Légion étrangère) où il fera quasiment toute sa carrière. En 1945, il sera promu au grade de colonel au 21e Régiment d'Infanterie avant de quitter la Légion en 1950 et d’être nommé adjoint au général.
Medal awarded on the edge to Colonel Gaultier. This is General Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) who began his military service with a mobilization in 1917, and was assigned to the 4th Zouave Regiment, where he was successively corporal, sergeant, and then cadet. He was appointed second lieutenant in 1919 in the 1st Foreign Regiment (Foreign Legion), where he spent almost his entire career. In 1945, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the 21st Infantry Regiment before leaving the Legion in 1950 and being appointed deputy to the general.
Il s’agit ici du général Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) commençant l’armée par une mobilisation en 1917, affecté au 4e régiment de zouaves où il sera successivement caporal, sergent, puis aspirant. Il sera nommé sous-lieutenant en 1919 au 1er Régiment étranger (Légion étrangère) où il fera quasiment toute sa carrière. En 1945, il sera promu au grade de colonel au 21e Régiment d'Infanterie avant de quitter la Légion en 1950 et d’être nommé adjoint au général.
Medal awarded on the edge to Colonel Gaultier. This is General Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) who began his military service with a mobilization in 1917, and was assigned to the 4th Zouave Regiment, where he was successively corporal, sergeant, and then cadet. He was appointed second lieutenant in 1919 in the 1st Foreign Regiment (Foreign Legion), where he spent almost his entire career. In 1945, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the 21st Infantry Regiment before leaving the Legion in 1950 and being appointed deputy to the general.
Historical background
IV REPUBLIC
(16/01/1947-8/01/1959)
Characterized by a parliamentary regime coupled with great ministerial instability, the Fourth Republic has the particularity of never having been officially proclaimed. Indeed, De Gaulle, when he arrived in Paris on August 25, 1944, refused to do so on the pretext that the Republic had never ceased to exist. Considering that the French State of Marshal Pétain was only a simple state of affairs, he considers that the Republic survived in free France and his birth certificate must then be June 18, 1940. However, his departure, the January 20, 1946, and the referendum of October 13, 1946 approving a new Constitution, mark the official beginning of this republic. It knows two presidents: Vincent Auriol (16/01/1947 - 23/12/1953) and René Coty (23/12/1953 - 8/1/1959). The open crisis caused by the revolt of the army of Algeria leads, in 1958, to its fall which is confirmed by the adoption of a new constitution on September 28, 1958. Nevertheless, it does not cease definitively until the 8 January 1959 when General de Gaulle was installed as President of the Fifth Republic.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sellRelated articles
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
HENRY III Denier tournois, 1er type de Paris 1579 Paris, Moulin des Étuves VF
28.00 €
LOUIS XIII Double tournois 1612 Nantes VF
25.00 €
FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS AND LITERATURE Académie royale des Inscrip
100.00 €
IV REPUBLIC Médaille, 100e anniversaire de l’institution de la médaille mili
80.00 €
CYPRUS Épreuve 5 Pounds Cupro-Nickel Mgr Makarios 1966 MS65 PCGS
3000.00 €
ITALY - KINGDOM OF SARDINIA - CHARLES-ALBERT 5 Lire 1833 Gênes VF
70.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
