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fjt_278261 - FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE. Napoléon Emperor bare head - Republican calendar Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène 1840

FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE. Napoléon Emperor bare head - Republican calendar Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène MS
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
Date: 1840
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 40,95 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 32,40 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
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Obverse


Obverse legend : NAPOLEON EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Buste en uniforme de Napoléon à gauche ; en-dessous A. BOVY..

Reverse


Reverse legend : * MEMORIAL DE STE HÉLÈNE * 5 MAI MDCCCXXI . PARIS 15 DÉC. MDCCCXL.
Reverse description : Tombeau à Sainte-Hélène.

Commentary


Après la défaite de Waterloo, Napoléon est exilé et déporté par les Britanniques sur l'île Sainte-Hélène où il débarque en octobre 1815. Il y meurt le 5 mai 1821. Conformément à ses dernières volontés, Napoléon est inhumé le 9 mai près d'une source dans la vallée du Géranium, dénommée depuis “vallée du Tombeau”. Le 27 mai, toute la colonie française quitte l'île. En 1840, le roi Louis-Philippe obtient du Royaume-Uni la restitution des cendres de l'Empereur. L'exhumation du corps de Napoléon a lieu le 15 octobre 1840, puis il est rapatrié en France et enterré aux Invalides à Paris.
After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled and deported by the British to the island of Saint Helena, where he landed in October 1815. He died there on May 5, 1821. In accordance with his last wishes, Napoleon was buried on May 9 near a spring in the Geranium Valley, which has since been called the “Tomb Valley.” On May 27, the entire French colony left the island. In 1840, King Louis-Philippe obtained the return of the Emperor’s ashes from the United Kingdom. Napoleon’s body was exhumed on October 15, 1840, and he was then repatriated to France and buried at Les Invalides in Paris.

Historical background


FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE. Napoléon Emperor bare head - Republican calendar

(18/05/1804-6/04/1814)

Napoleon proclaimed himself king of Italy on March 7, 1805 and appointed viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais, his son-in-law. Genoa is annexed to France on June 6. Napoleon I, from the camp of Boulogne, prepared an invasion of England during the spring and summer of 1805. The formation of the third coalition with Austria, England, Russia, Sweden and Naples on August 9 forces Bonaparte to leave Boulogne quickly; at the head of the Grande Armée, he went to the aid of Bavaria invaded by the Austrians. The capitulation of Ulm on October 20 opens the doors of Vienna which is invested on November 14. Meanwhile, the Franco-Spanish squadron was destroyed at Trafalgar by the English fleet commanded by Admiral Nelson who died during the battle. Napoleon won the Battle of Austerlitz on December 2, 1805 over the Austro-Russians. The Treaty of Pressburg gives Napoleon Venetia and Dalmatia.

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