E-auction 679-720449 - SECOND EMPIRE Médaille de récompense, Société impériale et centrale d’horticulture
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Type : Médaille de récompense, Société impériale et centrale d’horticulture
Date: 1858
Metal : copper
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DE LONGUEIL Honoré (1818-1889)
Weight : 32,33 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : main indicatrice (1845-1860) et CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, irisée, avec des traces d’usure, rayures et taches d’oxydation. Coups sur la tranche. Médaille anciennement nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III - EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche de Napoléon III, signée : H. DE LONGUEIL.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (FLEUR) SOCIÉTÉ CENTRALE D’AGRICULTURE DES BASSES-ALPES.
Reverse description : Inscription en 3 lignes horizontales dans une couronne composite de fleurs et de fruits.
Commentary
Cette société, dont l'importance fut très grande au XIXe siècle, changea régulièrement de titre officiel en fonction des vicissitudes politiques. Cet exemplaire est attribué à de Brie, fils, pour ses plantes de serre tempérée.
This company, which was very important in the 19th century, regularly changed its official name depending on political circumstances. This specimen is attributed to de Brie, son, for his temperate greenhouse plants.
This company, which was very important in the 19th century, regularly changed its official name depending on political circumstances. This specimen is attributed to de Brie, son, for his temperate greenhouse plants.
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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