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Live auction - fme_677312 - LOUIS XVI Médaille, Expérience aérostatique, Premier vol de ballons habités

LOUIS XVI Médaille, Expérience aérostatique, Premier vol de ballons habités AU/XF
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Estimate : 300 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 03 August 2021 20:17:26
Type : Médaille, Expérience aérostatique, Premier vol de ballons habités
Date: 1784
Metal : copper
Diameter : 50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 70,06 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec des concrétions vertes au revers. Peu d’usure, notamment à l’avers qui présente de jolis reliefs

Obverse

Obverse legend : AUDACIA FELIX. // À L’EXERGUE : AERA PERMEARUNT XXI. NOV. / L. F. DARLANDES ET F. PILATRE. / I DEC. JJ. A. C. CHARLES / ET M. N. ROBERT / ANNO MDCCLXXXIII.
Obverse description : Deux ballons s’élevant dans les airs ; à l’un d’eux est suspendue une nacelle portant des voyageurs.

Reverse

Reverse legend : PATEFACTO / PER AERA ITINERE / A JOSEPHO ET STEPHANO / MONTGOLFIER / V. JUNII MDCCLXXXIII. / REI MEMORIAM / POSTERITATI TRADI JUSSIT / LUDOVICUS XVI. / ANNO MDCCLXXXIV.
Reverse description : Légende en 9 lignes dans une couronne d’étoiles.
Reverse translation : Le moyen de voyager dans les airs ayant été découvert par Joseph et Etienne Montgolfier le 5 juin 1783, Louis XVI a ordonné de livrer à la postérité le souvenir de cette experience, l’an 1784.

Historical background

LOUIS XVI

(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)

In 1789, events will accelerate and cause the fall of royalty. If on May 5, the King opened the meeting of the States General in front of 1,200 deputies (doubling of the third), in the face of the stagnation of the debates, the Third Estate proclaimed itself in the National Assembly with certain deputies of the two other Orders, the Nobility and the Clergy. On June 20, it is the Oath of the Jeu de Paume of Versailles. On June 23, the King wants to suspend the debates, (intervention of Mirabeau: "we are here by the will of the people, we will only get out by the force of bayonets"). The National Constituent Assembly is formed by the three Orders on July 9. The King dismisses Necker on July 11, but will recall him after the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. Bailly is the first mayor of Paris, appointed on July 15. Following the Great Fear which spreads in the countryside, on the night of August 4, it is the abolition of privileges and feudal rights. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is voted on August 26, 1789.

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