Live auction - fme_1140373 - SECOND EMPIRE Médaille, Chemin de fer de Paris en Espagne, refrappe
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 50 € |
| Maximum bid : | 55 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 August 2026 19:25:35 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille, Chemin de fer de Paris en Espagne, refrappe
Date: (1855)
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 78 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BOVY Antoine (1795-1877) / OUDINÉ Eugène-André (1810 -1887)
Weight : 213,64 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces de fines rayures, quelques points d’oxydation et petits coups sur la tranche
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Tête nue de profil à gauche. Signé : A. BOVY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CHEMIN DE FER DE PARIS EN ESPAGNE / PAR ORLEANS, TOURS, BORDEAUX, ET BAYONNE / 1855 / NAPOLEON III REGNANT / M.R P. MAGNE MIISTRE DE L’AGRICULTURE / DU COMMERCE ET DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS..
Reverse description : Au centre, dans le lointain, la ville de Bayonne et en arrière plan, la chaîne des Pyrénées ; au premier plan, le pont du chemin de fer de la ville, où passe un train de messageries. En bas : la France et l'Espagne, assises, accoudées sur leurs armes. Au-dessous, celles d'Orléans, de Tours et Bordeaux.
A gauche et à droite, les attributs de la réussite des deux nations ; pour la France : les Sciences et les arts, pour l'Espagne : un bouclier où est rappelé la découverte de l'Amérique en 1491 et une palette portant les noms de ses trois grands peintres : MURILLO - VELASQUEZ et ZURBARAN. Signé : E. A OUDINE F..
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans une boîte bordeaux.
Medal preserved in a burgundy box
Medal preserved in a burgundy box
Historical background
SECOND EMPIRE
(2/12/1852-4/09/1870)
Napoleon III bareheaded
The Empire was proclaimed on December 2, 1852 and Napoleon III married Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920) on January 29, 1853. Haussmann was appointed Prefect of the Seine on June 23, 1853 with a major urban planning project for the capital. France declared war on Russia on March 27, 1854, the start of the Crimean War. The French, allied with the English and the Turks, won the victory of Alma on September 20 and, on September 26, laid siege to Sevastopol, which fell on September 10, 1855. The Universal Exhibition in Paris began on May 15, 1855 and hosts 20,000 exhibitors and 5 million visitors. The Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856 put an end to the Crimean War, the very year in which the Prince Imperial was born. The railway networks are reorganized and redistributed between the Péreire brothers and the Rothschilds. The publications of "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert and "Fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire in 1857 lead to their respective convictions for outrages against good morals.
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