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Live auction - fme_959518 - THE CONVENTION Médaille, Apothéose de la famille royale

THE CONVENTION Médaille, Apothéose de la famille royale AU
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Type : Médaille, Apothéose de la famille royale
Date: (1795)
Metal : tin
Diameter : 47 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver KRÜGER Friedrich Heinrich (1749-1815)
Weight : 37,32 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène présentant quelques taches d’oxydation. Légère usure
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LVD. XVI. REX. LVD. XVII. REX. MARIA ANTO. REG. GALL*.
Obverse description : Bustes drapés de profil à droite, profil diadémé de la Reine Marie Antoinette. Fleur de lis et sceptre brisés à l’exergue.

Reverse


Reverse legend : CLARIOR SUPERNE.
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine ailée, Iris, placée sur l’arc-en-ciel, regardant trois étoiles dans le ciel. Tombeau à l’arrière plan sur lequel est posé la couronne et le sceptre. Cassolette au pied du tombeau d’où s’échappe une épaisse fumée, à l’exergue : F. H. KRÜGER SENIOR / FEC.

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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