fme_916635 - THE CONVENTION Fonte, Hommage à Jean-Paul Marat
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Type : Fonte, Hommage à Jean-Paul Marat
Date: n.d.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 222 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1429,15 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec de hauts reliefs sur le buste. Faible usure. Métal des champs légèrement poreux
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARAT / L’AMI DU PEUPLE // NE POUVANT / LE CORROMPRE / ILS L’ONT ASSASSINE.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de profil à gauche coiffé d’un bonnet phrygien. Pendule et règle à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INCUS.
Reverse description : anneau de suspension.
Commentary
Largeur : 208 mm.
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) est un médecin, physicien, journaliste et homme politique français. Usurpateur de noblesse avant la chute du régime monarchique, il devient député montagnard à la Convention à l’époque de la Révolution. Son assassinat par Charlotte Corday permet aux hébertistes de faire de lui un martyr de la Révolution et d'installer pendant quelques mois ses restes au Panthéon (cf. wikipedia)
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Warning ! This medal may give rise to additional shipping costs..
Width: 208 mm. Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) was a French physician, physicist, journalist, and politician. A usurper of nobility before the fall of the monarchy, he became a Montagnard deputy in the National Convention during the Revolution. His assassination by Charlotte Corday allowed the Hébertists to make him a martyr of the Revolution and to place his remains in the Panthéon for a few months (see Wikipedia). Please note: This medal may incur additional shipping costs.
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) est un médecin, physicien, journaliste et homme politique français. Usurpateur de noblesse avant la chute du régime monarchique, il devient député montagnard à la Convention à l’époque de la Révolution. Son assassinat par Charlotte Corday permet aux hébertistes de faire de lui un martyr de la Révolution et d'installer pendant quelques mois ses restes au Panthéon (cf. wikipedia)
Attention ! Cette médaille peut faire lieu à des frais de port supplémentaires.
Warning ! This medal may give rise to additional shipping costs..
Width: 208 mm. Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) was a French physician, physicist, journalist, and politician. A usurper of nobility before the fall of the monarchy, he became a Montagnard deputy in the National Convention during the Revolution. His assassination by Charlotte Corday allowed the Hébertists to make him a martyr of the Revolution and to place his remains in the Panthéon for a few months (see Wikipedia). Please note: This medal may incur additional shipping costs.
Historical background
THE CONVENTION
(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)
The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.
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