Live auction - fme_459729 - LOUIS XVIII Médaille, Mort de Charles Ferdinand duc de Berry
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Mort de Charles Ferdinand duc de Berry
Date: 1820
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DEPAULIS Alexis-Joseph (1790-1867)
Weight : 1,83 g.
Edge : Lisse
Coments on the condition:
Intéressante patine avec une patine sombre
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la descendance directe du graveur Auguste-François Michaut (1786-1879)
Obverse
Obverse legend : CH. FERDINAND - DUC DE BERRY..
Obverse description : Tête à gauche du Duc de Berry.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LA FRANCE - LE PLEURE // XIV FEVRIER MDCCCXX..
Reverse description : Un autel avec une urne voilée.
Commentary
Rare médaille, avec un revers peu commun, pour un thème pourtant très représenté sur les médailles de cette époque.
Le duc de Berry, neveu du roi Louis XVIII et héritier potentiel au trône de France est assassiné dans la nuit du 13 au 14 février 1820 par l'ouvrier bonapartiste Louvel.
L'assassinat a un fort retentissement dans le pays car c'est sur le duc de Berry que l'avenir de la dynastie bourbonienne reposait. C'est pourquoi cet assassinat est perçu comme un régicide par l'opinion. Les ultras-royalistes se déchaînent alors face à Decazes, considéré comme le principal responsable de cette situation avec sa politique libérale.
Louvel est guillotiné le 7 juin 1820 sur la place de Grêve. Le 29 septembre 1820, un enfant naît de Marie-Caroline des Deux-Siciles, la femme du défunt duc. La dynastie est alors sauvée et le nouveau-né est appelé Henri Dieudonné d'Artois..
A rare medal, with an unusual reverse, for a theme that was nevertheless very common on medals from this period. The Duke of Berry, nephew of King Louis XVIII and potential heir to the throne of France, was assassinated on the night of February 13-14, 1820, by the Bonapartist worker Louvel. The assassination had a strong impact on the country because the future of the Bourbon dynasty rested on the Duke of Berry. This is why this assassination was perceived as regicide by public opinion. The ultra-royalists then went on a rampage against Decazes, considered the main culprit in this situation with his liberal policies. Louvel was guillotined on June 7, 1820, on the Place de Grêve. On September 29, 1820, a child was born to Marie-Caroline of the Two Sicilies, the wife of the late Duke. The dynasty was thus saved and the newborn was named Henri Dieudonné d'Artois.
Le duc de Berry, neveu du roi Louis XVIII et héritier potentiel au trône de France est assassiné dans la nuit du 13 au 14 février 1820 par l'ouvrier bonapartiste Louvel.
L'assassinat a un fort retentissement dans le pays car c'est sur le duc de Berry que l'avenir de la dynastie bourbonienne reposait. C'est pourquoi cet assassinat est perçu comme un régicide par l'opinion. Les ultras-royalistes se déchaînent alors face à Decazes, considéré comme le principal responsable de cette situation avec sa politique libérale.
Louvel est guillotiné le 7 juin 1820 sur la place de Grêve. Le 29 septembre 1820, un enfant naît de Marie-Caroline des Deux-Siciles, la femme du défunt duc. La dynastie est alors sauvée et le nouveau-né est appelé Henri Dieudonné d'Artois..
A rare medal, with an unusual reverse, for a theme that was nevertheless very common on medals from this period. The Duke of Berry, nephew of King Louis XVIII and potential heir to the throne of France, was assassinated on the night of February 13-14, 1820, by the Bonapartist worker Louvel. The assassination had a strong impact on the country because the future of the Bourbon dynasty rested on the Duke of Berry. This is why this assassination was perceived as regicide by public opinion. The ultra-royalists then went on a rampage against Decazes, considered the main culprit in this situation with his liberal policies. Louvel was guillotined on June 7, 1820, on the Place de Grêve. On September 29, 1820, a child was born to Marie-Caroline of the Two Sicilies, the wife of the late Duke. The dynasty was thus saved and the newborn was named Henri Dieudonné d'Artois.
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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