E-auction 667-697597 - fme_1005842 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille, Offerte au Général Gaultier
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 221 € |
| Maximum bid : | 222 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 January 2026 19:46:00 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Offerte au Général Gaultier
Date: 1955
Mint name / Town : 34 - Sète
Metal : silver
Diameter : 52 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver RIVET Adolphe (1855-1925)
Weight : 78,44 g.
Edge : Lisse + losange ARGENT + tête de sanglier
Puncheon : Tête de sanglier et losange ARGENT
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène légèrement irisée avec des traces d’oxydations notamment sur la tranche. Présence de quelques coups et rayures, notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE - FRANCAISE.
Obverse description : Buste de Marianne de profil à droite, coiffée d’un bonnet phrygien et d’une couronne de laurier. Signé : AD. RIVET.
Reverse
Reverse legend : AU GENERAL GAULTIER // VILLE DE SETE // 29 AOUT 1955.
Reverse description : Blason de la ville de Sete dans une couronne de laurier et de chêne .
Commentary
Exemplaire decerné au général Gaultier. Il semble s’agir de Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) commençant l’armée par une mobilisation en 1917, affecté au 4e régiment de zouaves où il sera successivement caporal, sergent, puis aspirant. Il sera nommé sous-lieutenant en 1919 au 1er Régiment étranger (Légion étrangère) où il fera quasiment toute sa carrière.
example awarded to General Gaultier. It appears to be Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) who began his military service with a mobilization in 1917, and was assigned to the 4th Zouave Regiment, where he was successively corporal, sergeant, and then cadet. He was appointed second lieutenant in 1919 in the 1st Foreign Regiment (Foreign Legion), where he spent almost his entire career.
example awarded to General Gaultier. It appears to be Louis-Antoine Gaultier (1898-1970) who began his military service with a mobilization in 1917, and was assigned to the 4th Zouave Regiment, where he was successively corporal, sergeant, and then cadet. He was appointed second lieutenant in 1919 in the 1st Foreign Regiment (Foreign Legion), where he spent almost his entire career.
Historical background
IV REPUBLIC
(16/01/1947-8/01/1959)
Characterized by a parliamentary regime coupled with great ministerial instability, the Fourth Republic has the particularity of never having been officially proclaimed. Indeed, De Gaulle, when he arrived in Paris on August 25, 1944, refused to do so on the pretext that the Republic had never ceased to exist. Considering that the French State of Marshal Pétain was only a simple state of affairs, he considers that the Republic survived in free France and his birth certificate must then be June 18, 1940. However, his departure, the January 20, 1946, and the referendum of October 13, 1946 approving a new Constitution, mark the official beginning of this republic. It knows two presidents: Vincent Auriol (16/01/1947 - 23/12/1953) and René Coty (23/12/1953 - 8/1/1959). The open crisis caused by the revolt of the army of Algeria leads, in 1958, to its fall which is confirmed by the adoption of a new constitution on September 28, 1958. Nevertheless, it does not cease definitively until the 8 January 1959 when General de Gaulle was installed as President of the Fifth Republic.
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