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fme_614391 - LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface, Arrivée du Roi à Paris

LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface, Arrivée du Roi à Paris XF
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Type : Médaille uniface, Arrivée du Roi à Paris
Date: 1789
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : copper-bronze
Diameter : 91 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver ANDRIEU Jean-Bertrand (1761-1822)
Weight : 50,89 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine sombre hétérogène avec quelques marques d’usure sur les hauts reliefs. Présence de taches noires. Rayures à l’exergue
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ARRIVEE DU ROI A PARIS EN LÉGENDE CIRCULAIRE ; À L’EXERGUE EN DEUX LIGNES : LE 6 OCTOBRE / 1789.
Obverse description : Louis XVI, en voiture avec sa famille, et entouré du peuple qui le conduit de Versailles à Paris, passant sur la place Louis XV, signé : ANDRIEU. F. et N°.2.

Reverse


Reverse description : Lisse.

Commentary


Diamètre sans bélière : 82,5 mm

Bertrand Andrieu (1761-1822) est né à Bordeaux. À l’âge de 25 ans, il quitte sa ville natale pour Paris où il devient élève de Gatteaux. En 1789, il grave la médaille de la prise de la Bastille. Il est l’auteur des bustes de Napoléon et de Louis XVIII qui sont trouvés si beaux qu’ils servent pour le droit de nombreuses médailles et jetons, associés aux revers d’autres graveurs. Il reste l’un des grands graveurs du Premier Empire.

Ce type avec cette scène mémorable sera largement repris, copié et imité tout au long du XIXe siècle.
Diameter without bail: 82.5 mm Bertrand Andrieu (1761-1822) was born in Bordeaux. At the age of 25, he left his hometown for Paris where he became a student of Gatteaux. In 1789, he engraved the medal of the storming of the Bastille. He is the author of the busts of Napoleon and Louis XVIII which were found so beautiful that they were used for the right of numerous medals and tokens, associated with the reverses of other engravers. He remains one of the great engravers of the First Empire. This type with this memorable scene will be widely taken up, copied and imitated throughout the 19th century

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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