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Live auction - fme_1072008 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille, Paquebot “Liberté”

IV REPUBLIC Médaille, Paquebot “Liberté” AU
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Estimate : 100 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 18 November 2025 16:44:58
Type : Médaille, Paquebot “Liberté”
Date: 1950-1961
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 49,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver VERNON Jean (1897-1975)
Weight : 53,40 g.
Edge : lisse + triangle BRONZE
Puncheon : BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Quelques taches d’oxydation

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Allégorie (Vénus) de face, ayant brisé ses chaînes, entre deux dauphins.

Reverse


Reverse legend : COMPAGNIE / GÉNÉRALE / TRANSATLANTIQUE // LIBERTÉ / LE HAVRE - NEW YORK / FRENCH LINE.
Reverse description : Le paquebot Liberté à gauche ; légende en 3 lignes à l’exergue.

Commentary


Cette médaille est conservée dans sa boîte d’origine en carton (abîmé), bleu pâle, gaufré de lettres dorés : COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE “LIBERTÉ”, French Line. A l’intérieur est inscrit à la plume des phrases en anglais : “Chapter I. I shall eat nust, iron, rain. I shall eat my hunger” et “Chapter II, MY hungers ride everyone [...] They ride away [...] Grace Grace, angel, [...] darling”.

Jean Émile Louis de Vernon, dit Jean de Vernon, né le 1er avril 1897 à Paris, ville où il est mort le 9 septembre 1975, est un graveur-médailleur et sculpteur français. Il est l’élève de Jules Coutan et d'Hippolyte Jules Lefèbvre. Il expose au Salon des artistes français dès 1922 et obtient une médaille d'argent en 1924, puis une médaille d'or en 1936. Un prix de gravure porte le nom de son père et le sien : prix Frédéric et Jean de Vernon...
This medal is preserved in its original cardboard box (damaged), pale blue, embossed with gold letters: COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE “LIBERTÉ”, French Line. Inside are written in pen the sentences in English: “Chapter I. I shall eat nust, iron, rain. I shall eat my hunger” and “Chapter II, MY hungers ride everyone [...] They ride away [...] Grace Grace, angel, [...] darling”. Jean Émile Louis de Vernon, known as Jean de Vernon, born on April 1, 1897 in Paris, the city where he died on September 9, 1975, is a French engraver-medalist and sculptor. He was a student of Jules Coutan and Hippolyte Jules Lefèbvre. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1922 and won a silver medal in 1924, then a gold medal in 1936. An engraving prize bears his father's name and his own: the Frédéric and Jean de Vernon Prize.

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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