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Live auction - fme_885347 - LOUIS XVIII Médaille, Encouragement pour la culture de la pomme de terre
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 60 € |
| Maximum bid : | 81 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 February 2024 16:56:59 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille, Encouragement pour la culture de la pomme de terre
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DEPAULIS Alexis Joseph (1790-1867)
Weight : 20,17 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille ayant été nettoyée, présentant des coups et rayures, notamment à l’avers et sur la tranche. Petite usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVIII ROI DE - FRANCE ET DE NAVARRE..
Obverse description : Tête de Louis XVIII à droite, les cheveux détachés. Signé : DEPAULIS. F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : ENCOURAGEMENT / POUR / LA CULTURE / DE LA POMME / DE TERRE.
Reverse description : Légende gravée en 5 lignes dans une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
Médaille gravée pour encourager à la culture de la pomme de terre.
Originaire d’Amérique Latine, la pomme de terre était consommée il y a plus de 10 000 ans. Elle arrive sur le territoire européen suite à l’arrivée des Espagnols en Amérique du Sud. L’introduction est longue et mal documentée, par contre on sait que, jusqu’au milieu du XVIe siècle, la pomme de terre, considérée plus comme une médecine que comme un aliment, va rester cantonnée autour des couvents, des cours royales, des jardins de botanistes. Suite aux nombreuses disettes et guerres européennes, sa consommation va se développer malgré les préjugés et superstitions.
Après plusieurs petites utilisations à travers le territoire français, c’est finalement Antoine Parmentier qui va devenir le porte drapeau de sa culture comme moyen de parer aux famines répétitives qui sévissent dans le pays et qui va œuvrer à la rendre populaire. Après plusieurs péripéties et à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, 4 500 hectares sont consacrés à la culture de la pomme de terre.
À partir de 1818, des concours sont organisés par l'Académie d'agriculture de France pour en encourager l'exploitation et récompenser les « cultivateurs, inspirés sans doute par la Providence à laquelle on doit rendre grâce de ce nouveau bienfait, ont confié à de vastes champs la plupart en jachères, ou à des terres jusqu'alors incultes, de nombreux plants de pommes de terre, et sur un espace beaucoup plus grand que les besoins ne semblaient l'exiger. »
cf. wikipedia.
Engraved medal to encourage potato cultivation.
Originally from Latin America, the potato was eaten more than 10,000 years ago.. It arrived in Europe following the arrival of the Spanish in South America. The introduction is long and poorly documented, however we know that, until the middle of the 16th century, the potato, considered more as a medicine than as a food, remained confined to convents, royal courts, and botanists' gardens.. Following numerous European famines and wars, its consumption grew despite prejudices and superstitions..
After several small uses throughout France, it was finally Antoine Parmentier who became the standard-bearer of its culture as a means of warding off the repeated famines that plagued the country and who worked to make it popular.. After several twists and turns, at the end of the 18th century, 4,500 hectares were devoted to potato cultivation..
From 1818, competitions were organized by the French Academy of Agriculture to encourage its exploitation and reward \\\"cultivators, doubtless inspired by Providence to which we must give thanks for this new benefit, who entrusted to vast fields, most of them fallow, or to lands hitherto uncultivated, numerous potato plants, and over a much larger area than the needs seemed to require.\\\". » cf. Wikipedia
Originaire d’Amérique Latine, la pomme de terre était consommée il y a plus de 10 000 ans. Elle arrive sur le territoire européen suite à l’arrivée des Espagnols en Amérique du Sud. L’introduction est longue et mal documentée, par contre on sait que, jusqu’au milieu du XVIe siècle, la pomme de terre, considérée plus comme une médecine que comme un aliment, va rester cantonnée autour des couvents, des cours royales, des jardins de botanistes. Suite aux nombreuses disettes et guerres européennes, sa consommation va se développer malgré les préjugés et superstitions.
Après plusieurs petites utilisations à travers le territoire français, c’est finalement Antoine Parmentier qui va devenir le porte drapeau de sa culture comme moyen de parer aux famines répétitives qui sévissent dans le pays et qui va œuvrer à la rendre populaire. Après plusieurs péripéties et à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, 4 500 hectares sont consacrés à la culture de la pomme de terre.
À partir de 1818, des concours sont organisés par l'Académie d'agriculture de France pour en encourager l'exploitation et récompenser les « cultivateurs, inspirés sans doute par la Providence à laquelle on doit rendre grâce de ce nouveau bienfait, ont confié à de vastes champs la plupart en jachères, ou à des terres jusqu'alors incultes, de nombreux plants de pommes de terre, et sur un espace beaucoup plus grand que les besoins ne semblaient l'exiger. »
cf. wikipedia.
Engraved medal to encourage potato cultivation.
Originally from Latin America, the potato was eaten more than 10,000 years ago.. It arrived in Europe following the arrival of the Spanish in South America. The introduction is long and poorly documented, however we know that, until the middle of the 16th century, the potato, considered more as a medicine than as a food, remained confined to convents, royal courts, and botanists' gardens.. Following numerous European famines and wars, its consumption grew despite prejudices and superstitions..
After several small uses throughout France, it was finally Antoine Parmentier who became the standard-bearer of its culture as a means of warding off the repeated famines that plagued the country and who worked to make it popular.. After several twists and turns, at the end of the 18th century, 4,500 hectares were devoted to potato cultivation..
From 1818, competitions were organized by the French Academy of Agriculture to encourage its exploitation and reward \\\"cultivators, doubtless inspired by Providence to which we must give thanks for this new benefit, who entrusted to vast fields, most of them fallow, or to lands hitherto uncultivated, numerous potato plants, and over a much larger area than the needs seemed to require.\\\". » cf. Wikipedia
Historical background
LOUIS XVIII
(04/06/1814-09/16/1824)
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier was born in Versailles in 1755 from the union of Dauphin Louis (son of Louis XV) and Marie-Josèphe Louise de Savoie. He first received the title of Count of Provence and was called Monsieur when his older brother, Louis XVI, became king in 1774.. Married to Louise Marie-Joséphine de Savoie in 1771, he had no children. Often in opposition to the Court, he did not initially condemn the movement of 1789 but the evolution of events decided him to leave Paris in the company of his wife, the very day of Louis XVI's flight to Varennes, but by another way. Refugee in Koblenz with his brother, the Count of Artois, he took the title of regent after the execution of Louis XVI then, on the death of his nephew Louis XVII, that of king. He began to work on the restoration despite the weak support at his disposal and had to change residence several times in the face of the victories of the Revolution and of Bonaparte.. With the First Empire, the monarchical cause seemed hopeless and Louis XVIII settled in England in a period of exile and financial embarrassment.. During the first defeats of Napoleon I, Louis XVIII resumed his diplomatic activity which, on the initiative of Talleyrand and thanks to English support, enabled him to return to France in May 1814.. Forced to flee to Ghent during the Hundred Days, Louis XVIII, during the second Restoration, tried to carry out the same policy of reconciliation as that defined on his first return to France.. After the White Terror (execution of Marshal Ney), the regime softened and fell asleep. Duke Decazes replaces Richelieu from 1818. Despite royalist pressure, Louis XVIII strongly supported the moderate policy of Decazes in the early years. France is reintegrated into the concert of Nations after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. Occupation forces leave France. The law on censorship is relaxed in 1819. That year, Géricault presented the Raft of the Medusa. The policy of conciliation ceases after the assassination of the Duke of Berry on February 13, 1820 by Louvel. Overwhelmed by the reaction of the ultras after this assassination, Decazes resigned on February 20 and the Duke of Richelieu was recalled, thus marking the triumph of the right for the end of the reign and for the following reign.. The child of the miracle, Henri, Duke of Bordeaux, posthumous son of Charles Duke of Berry and Marie-Caroline de Bourbon, was born on September 29, 1820. Napoleon I died in Saint Helena on May 5, 1821.. Villele replaces Richelieu on December 14, 1821. The end of the reign is marked by the expedition to Spain, commanded by the Duke of Angoulême, organized in order to restore Ferdinand VII, driven out by the liberals. The French took Madrid on May 23, Fort Trocadéro on August 31, and Cadiz on September 30, 1823.. Louis XVIII, ill and crippled (gout), died September 16, 1824. He is buried in Saint-Denis on September 23.
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