fjt_011354 - ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns GRIGNON. DE. BONVALET 1786
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Type : GRIGNON. DE. BONVALET
Date: 1786
Metal : silver
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAIRIE. DE. MRE. F. A. GRIGNON. DE. BONVALET. ECUYER. 1786.
Obverse description : Armes de M. Grignon de Bonvallet.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ME VINDICE LILIA FLORENT À L'EXERGUE : AURELIA.
Reverse description : Jeanne d'Arc assise de face, tenant de la main droite son épée, la gauche appuyée sur l'écu d'Orléans qui écrase le lion anglais, la harpe irlandaise et des drapeaux de régiments. Signé D.V.
Reverse translation : Les lis fleurissent sous ma protection ; à l'exergue : Orléans.
Commentary
La légende revers est en caractères très petits, à comparer par exemple avec le type normal, JETONS VIII, 418.
Historical background
ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns
Founded on the ruins of the Gallic city of Cenabum, the city takes the name of the emperor Aurélien, Aurelianum. The city was a bishopric from the 4th century then capital of a Frankish kingdom in the 6th century. Forming a county under the Carolingians, the Orleans region then became the territorial base of Capetian power. Endowed with a university since 1309, it was then besieged by the English but delivered by Joan of Arc in May 1429. The city then entered history several times during the Wars of Religion, the Fronde or in 1870 when it is occupied by von der Tann.
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