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E-auction 449-362042 - fme_412487 - LOUIS-PHILIPPE I Médaille, Retour des cendres de Napoléon Ier

LOUIS-PHILIPPE I Médaille, Retour des cendres de Napoléon Ier AU
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Estimate : 120 €
Price : 43 €
Maximum bid : 60 €
End of the sale : 22 November 2021 18:58:00
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Médaille, Retour des cendres de Napoléon Ier
Date: 1840
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BORREL Valentin Maurice(1804-1882)
Weight : 27 g.
Edge : lisse + proue CUIVRE
Puncheon : Proue CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Très intéressante médaille, en très bel état avec une agréable patine d’époque

Obverse


Obverse legend : NAPOLÉON - EMPEREUR // JE DÉSIRE QUE MES CENDRES / REPOSENT SUR LES RIVES / DE LA SEINE AU MILIEU / DE CE PEUPLE QUE J'AI / TANT AIMÉ.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Napoléon Ier à gauche ; légende autour et en 5 lignes à l’exergue. Signé : BORREL F..

Reverse


Reverse legend : LE PRINCE DE - JOINVILLE / COMMANDANT - L’EXPÉDITION // TRANSLATION / DES RESTES MORTELS / DE L’EMPEREUR NAPOLÉON, / DE L’ÎLE STE HÉLÈNE / À L’HÔTEL ROYAL DES INVALIDES / 15 DÉCEMBRE 1840. // PRISONNIER 1815 - MORT 1821.
Reverse description : Légendes en neuf lignes entre un coussin avec une couronne, la main de justice, un sabre et l’ordre de... et une urne funéraire inscrite N entre deux palmes.

Commentary


Intéressante médaille à mettre en relation avec la fme_412242 pour le passage à Rouen des restes mortels de Napoléon Ier en 1840, avec le poinçon Proue (donc réalisée entre 1842 et 1845).

La formule consacrée retour des cendres – le terme « cendres » étant pris non au sens propre mais au sens figuré de « restes mortels d'une personne » – désigne le rapatriement en France, en 1840, à l'initiative d'Adolphe Thiers et du roi Louis-Philippe, de la dépouille mortelle de Napoléon et son inhumation aux Invalides.
En mourant, Napoléon Ier avait manifesté le désir d’être inhumé « sur les bords de la Seine, au milieu de ce peuple français [qu’il avait] tant aimé » dans un codicille de son testament écrit le 16 avril 1821 à Longwood House.

Historical background


LOUIS-PHILIPPE I

(7/08/1830-24/02/1848)

Born in Paris in 1773, Louis-Philippe is the eldest son of Louis-Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orléans (Philippe-Égalité), guillotined in 1793 for corruption after having voted for the death of his cousin Louis XVI. He successively bears the titles of Duke of Valois, Chartres and Orleans from 1793. Favorable to the Revolution, like his father, he nevertheless had to take refuge in Switzerland then he traveled to Scandinavia, the United States and finally settled in England in 1801.. The Restoration allows him to find the immense possessions of his family but he remains considered as a potential rival by Louis XVIII who receives him coldly. Refugee in England during the Hundred Days, he returned to France in 1817. Greedy for gain, he gave his support to the opposition represented by the liberal party while relying on the possessing upper middle class.. The days of 1830 gave him the opportunity to come to power after having adhered to the tricolor flag and multiplied the promises. He became on July 31, 1830 lieutenant general of the kingdom then king of the French on August 7. His reign, under a liberal appearance, will become that of the bourgeoisie and business circles while the oppositions (Legitimists, Bonapartists, Republicans and Socialists) are maintained illegally.. His peace policy and his authority then earned him significant prestige with the European courts.. The banker Laffitte is Prime Minister. La Fayette is one of the architects of this "bourgeois revolution". On March 13, 1831, Casimir Périer replaced Laffitte. France intervenes in Belgium in August 1831 to counter the Dutch. The Legitimists, with the rue des Prouvaires plot, try to establish Henry V as king while his mother tries to raise the Vendée. She was arrested on December 3, 1832 in Nantes.. The cholera epidemic kills more than ten thousand people in Paris, including Casimir Périer. General Lamarque's funeral was the occasion for an attempted republican uprising, crushed in blood (see. Wretched). The French occupy Antwerp on December 23, 1832.. Fieschi's attack of July 28, 1835 against Louis-Philippe kills eighteen people including Marshal Mortier. The first Paris-Orléans railway line and the July column were inaugurated on October 24, 1837 and July 28, 1840 respectively.. The year 1840 marked a turning point in the regime, with great ministerial instability before having the Guizot ministry ("Get rich!").. Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, after a second putsch attempt, was sentenced to life imprisonment and locked up in Fort Ham from which he escaped in 1846. Napoleon's ashes are brought from Saint Helena and transferred to Les Invalides. From 1841, Louis-Philippe committed France to the path of the total conquest of Algeria, already begun under Charles X, while a major economic boom developed in Metropolitan France.. A law in 1841 limits child labor to 12 hours. The first serious railway accident took place on the Paris-Versailles line and caused 45 deaths on May 8, 1842. On July 13, the Duke of Orleans, the king's eldest son, died accidentally. On May 16, 1843, the Duke of Aumale took the smala of Abd-el-Kader who managed to escape. Bugeaud, Governor of Algeria, is made Marshal. 1843 is also the beginning of the Entente Cordiale and the visit of Queen Victoria to France. The French beat the Moroccans at Isly. Abd-el-Kader surrenders on December 23, 1847. The refusal of reforms leads to the fall of the regime during the Banquet Campaign and Louis-Philippe, dethroned on February 24, 1848, takes refuge in England after having abdicated in favor of his grandson..

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