fme_423614 - LOUIS XVI Médaille de Palloy, Chute de la Bastille
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Médaille de Palloy, Chute de la Bastille
Date: 1789
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : iron
Diameter : 40,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,5 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Médaille en fer, cerclé de bronze, de 46,5 mm avec la bélière. Patine grise un peu brossée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LA LIBERTÉ A DÉTRUIT LE DESPOTISME.
Obverse description : La Liberté debout, tenant une pique surmontée du bonnet, et ayant près d'elle une massue, montre du doigt la Bastille qui s'écroule.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CE MÉTAL PROVIENT DES VERROUX DE LA BASTILLE // L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE.
Reverse description : Un ruban attaché autour d’un faisceau de licteur surmonté du bonnet phrygien.
Commentary
Cette médaille est formée par deux plaques de fer minces, frappées, et réunies par un cercle de cuivre, auquel tient ordinairement une belière.
Cette médaille ne porte pas d'année, mais ses légendes indiquent qu'elle doit être classée à la fin de 1789. Elle a été faite pour M. P.-F. Palloy, quoique son nom ne s'y trouve pas inscrit.
On trouve quelquefois le revers de cette pièce seul, fixé à une balle de plomb aplatie, provenant également des débris de la Bastille..
This medal is formed by two thin iron plates, struck and joined by a copper circle, to which a bail is usually attached. This medal does not bear a year, but its legends indicate that it should be classified at the end of 1789. It was made for MP-F. Palloy, although his name is not inscribed on it. The reverse of this piece is sometimes found alone, attached to a flattened lead ball, also from the debris of the Bastille.
Cette médaille ne porte pas d'année, mais ses légendes indiquent qu'elle doit être classée à la fin de 1789. Elle a été faite pour M. P.-F. Palloy, quoique son nom ne s'y trouve pas inscrit.
On trouve quelquefois le revers de cette pièce seul, fixé à une balle de plomb aplatie, provenant également des débris de la Bastille..
This medal is formed by two thin iron plates, struck and joined by a copper circle, to which a bail is usually attached. This medal does not bear a year, but its legends indicate that it should be classified at the end of 1789. It was made for MP-F. Palloy, although his name is not inscribed on it. The reverse of this piece is sometimes found alone, attached to a flattened lead ball, also from the debris of the Bastille.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
The Girondin ministry, formed on March 23, 1792, declared war on April 20 on the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Leopold II. Rouget de Lisle composes the Marseillaise on April 25th. The Fatherland is declared "in danger" on July 11. The Parisians and the Marseillais take the Tuileries and massacre the defenders of the castle, Swiss and noble, the king and his family take refuge near the Assembly. Louis XVI was stripped of his functions and interned in the Temple on August 12. In early September, massacres took place in Parisian prisons, including the Carmelites, and claimed thousands of victims, including the Princess of Lamballe, Marie-Antoinette's friend. Dumouriez and Kellermann won the victory of Valmy over the Prussians on September 20, 1792. The news was quickly known thanks to Chappe's telegraph. The following day, the republic was proclaimed and royalty abolished at the first meeting of the Convention. Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at Jemmapes on November 6 and occupied Brussels. The King's trial begins on December 10. On January 17, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote and was guillotined on January 21, 1793..
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