fjt_302163 - SECOND REPUBLIC Génie de la Liberté 1848
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Price : 40.00 €
Type : Génie de la Liberté
Date: 1848
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,50 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE LIBERTE/ EGALITE/ PROBITE/ FRATERNITE ; À L'EXERGUE 1848.
Obverse description : Bonnet phrygien rayonnant au-dessus d'une légende en quatre lignes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ / 23 24 FEVRIER 1848.
Reverse description : Génie de la Liberté à droite sIgnature : MONTAGNY.
Historical background
SECOND REPUBLIC
(02/24/1848-12/2/1852)
Louis-Napoleon was elected on December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He did not have the right to run again in 1852. Louis-Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and the commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million YES and only 640,000 NO. Victor Hugo went into exile on December 12. The following year, he will publish "Napoléon le Petit" which will earn Louis-Napoleon, who has become Napoleon III in the meantime, this famous sentence: "Napoleon le Petit by Victor le Grand".
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