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fme_614340 - LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface, Siège de la Bastille, lot de 2 ex.

LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface, Siège de la Bastille, lot de 2 ex. AU
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Type : Médaille uniface, Siège de la Bastille, lot de 2 ex.
Date: 1789
Metal : various
Diameter : 81,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver ANDRIEU Jean-Bertrand (1761-1822)
Weight : 162,81 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Chaque exemplaire présente de jolis reliefs avec une petite usure sur certains reliefs
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : SIEGE DE LA BASTILLE // À L’EXERGUE : PRISE PAR LES CITOYENS DE / LA VILLE DE PARIS / LE 14 JU.ET 1789.
Obverse description : Vue du siège de la Bastille avec les citoyens armés assiégeant la forteresse, parmi lesquels des soldats des Gardes-Françaises.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LISSE.

Commentary


Tirage en cuivre : 81,5 mm et 69,36g
Tirage en étain : 79 mm et 93,45g.

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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