fme_886997 - NAPOLEON II Médaille, L’aiglon, Napoléon Ier et Napoléon II
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Type : Médaille, L’aiglon, Napoléon Ier et Napoléon II
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée, présentant de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de profil à droite de Napoléon Ier dans les ailes et griffes de l’aigle impérial.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Buste habillé de profil à gauche de Napoléon II dans les ailes et griffes de l’aigle impérial.
Historical background
NAPOLEON II
(20/03/1811-22/07/1832)
Napoleon François-Joseph Charles Bonaparte was born on March 20, 1811. King of Rome at his birth, he left France for good on May 2, 1814 with his mother, Archduchess Marie-Louise, without having seen his father again. The child bears the first names of his paternal grandparents, François and Joseph for Austria and Charles, the first name of Napoleon's father. In 1818, the Aiglon received the title of Duke of Reichstadt, for whom his father had abdicated on June 22, 1815, proclaiming him Napoleon II, Emperor of the French. Entrusted to the custody of Metternich, the Emperor's son died in the costume of an Austrian colonel on July 22, 1832. He was immortalized in Edmond Rostand's drama (1900) where he was played by Sarah Bernhardt.
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