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fme_400408 - LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface de l’arrivée du Roi à Paris

LOUIS XVI Médaille uniface de l’arrivée du Roi à Paris AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : Médaille uniface de l’arrivée du Roi à Paris
Date: 1789
Mint name / Town : 75 - Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 77,5 mm
Engraver ANDRIEU Jean-Bertrand (1761-1822)
Weight : 96 g.
Coments on the condition:
Fonte ancienne, avec un très bel avers et un revers irrégulier
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.

Reverse


Reverse description : Lisse.

Commentary


L’exemplaire n° 1783 de MONNAIES 24, en étain, a été vendu 200€ sur un ordre maximum de 380€.

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.
Coin No. 1783 from MONNAIES 24, in pewter, sold for €200 out of a maximum bid of €380. 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 for the storming of the Bastille. He created busts of Napoleon and Louis XVIII, which were considered so beautiful that they were used for the rights 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, was widely reproduced, copied, and imitated throughout the 19th century.

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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