Live auction - fme_782976 - III REPUBLIC Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du pont Alexandre III
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 410 € |
| Maximum bid : | 440 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 January 2023 18:33:31 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du pont Alexandre III
Date: 1900
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 70 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DUPUIS Daniel (1849-1899)
Weight : 140,01 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène. La médaille présente une petite usure sur certains reliefs. Présence de quelques coups, notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : ALEXANDRE III / PAX // À L’EXERGUE : SVR LA BERGE HISTORIQVE AVANT QVE DE DESCENDRE / SI TON GENEREVX CŒVR AVX CŒURS FRANÇAIS REPOND, / MÉDITE GRAVEMENT, RÊVE DEVANT CE PONT, / LA FRANCE LE CONSACRE A TON PÈRE ALEXANDRE.
Obverse description : Sous une allégorie montrant le buste rayonnant d'Alexandre III, la France et la Russie, personnifiées, en train de poser la première pierre du pont consacré à Alexandre III à Paris ; signé : DANIEL-DUPUIS.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SA MAJESTE NICOLAS II / EMPEREUR DE TOUTES LES RUSSIES / SA MAJESTE L'IMPERATRICE ALEXANDRA FEDOROVNA / FELIX FAURE PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / ONT POSÉ A PARIS / LA PREMIERE PIERRE DU PONT / ALEXANDRE III / MELINE ETANT PRESIDENT DU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES / HENRY BOUCHER MINISTRE DU COMMERCE / ALFRED PICARD COMMISSAIRE GENERAL / DE L’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE / DE 1900.
Reverse description : Allégorie de la Seine avec un ange tenant une banderole inscrite LE VII OCTOBRE MDCCCXCVI .
Commentary
La médaille est conservée dans son écrin d’origine timbré en lettres dorées : PONT ALEXANDRE III, qui malheureusement ne se ferme plus entièrement.
Les travaux de construction du pont Alexandre III ont débuté en 1896, avant d'être inauguré par le président Félix Faure et le tsar Nicolas II à l'occasion de la venue de ce dernier pour l'Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1900. Le quatrain reproduit au droit est tiré du poème Salut à l'Empereur, de José Maria de Heredia.
Inauguré pour l'Exposition universelle de Paris en 1900, le pont était destiné à symboliser l'amitié franco-russe, instaurée par la signature de l'alliance conclue en 1891 entre l’empereur Alexandre III (1845-1894) et le président de la République française Sadi Carnot. La première pierre fut posée par le tsar Nicolas II de Russie, l'impératrice Alexandra Fedorovna et le président Félix Faure le 7 octobre 1896. La construction de cet ouvrage d'art fut confiée aux ingénieurs Jean Résal et Amédée Alby, ainsi qu'aux architectes Cassien-Bernard et Gaston Cousin.
Construit dans l'axe de l'esplanade des Invalides, il conduit de celle-ci aux Petit et Grand Palais également construits pour l'exposition universelle.
Sur la colonne, rive droite en aval, fut gravée cette inscription : « Le 14 avril 1900, Émile Loubet président de la République Française a ouvert l'exposition universelle et inauguré le pont Alexandre III »..
The medal is kept in its original case stamped in gold letters: PONT ALEXANDRE III, which unfortunately no longer closes completely..
Construction work on the Alexandre III Bridge began in 1896, before being inaugurated by President Félix Faure and Tsar Nicholas II on the occasion of the latter's visit to the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900.. The quatrain reproduced on the right is taken from the poem Salut à l'Empereur, by José Maria de Heredia.
Inaugurated for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the bridge was intended to symbolize Franco-Russian friendship, established by the signing of the alliance concluded in 1891 between Emperor Alexander III (1845-1894) and the President of the French Republic Sadi Carnot.. The first stone was laid by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure on October 7, 1896.. The construction of this work of art was entrusted to the engineers Jean Résal and Amédée Alby, as well as to the architects Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin.
Built along the axis of the Esplanade des Invalides, it leads from there to the Petit and Grand Palais, also built for the Universal Exhibition..
On the column, on the right bank downstream, was engraved this inscription: \\\"On April 14, 1900, Émile Loubet, President of the French Republic, opened the Universal Exhibition and inaugurated the Alexandre III Bridge.\\\".
Les travaux de construction du pont Alexandre III ont débuté en 1896, avant d'être inauguré par le président Félix Faure et le tsar Nicolas II à l'occasion de la venue de ce dernier pour l'Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1900. Le quatrain reproduit au droit est tiré du poème Salut à l'Empereur, de José Maria de Heredia.
Inauguré pour l'Exposition universelle de Paris en 1900, le pont était destiné à symboliser l'amitié franco-russe, instaurée par la signature de l'alliance conclue en 1891 entre l’empereur Alexandre III (1845-1894) et le président de la République française Sadi Carnot. La première pierre fut posée par le tsar Nicolas II de Russie, l'impératrice Alexandra Fedorovna et le président Félix Faure le 7 octobre 1896. La construction de cet ouvrage d'art fut confiée aux ingénieurs Jean Résal et Amédée Alby, ainsi qu'aux architectes Cassien-Bernard et Gaston Cousin.
Construit dans l'axe de l'esplanade des Invalides, il conduit de celle-ci aux Petit et Grand Palais également construits pour l'exposition universelle.
Sur la colonne, rive droite en aval, fut gravée cette inscription : « Le 14 avril 1900, Émile Loubet président de la République Française a ouvert l'exposition universelle et inauguré le pont Alexandre III »..
The medal is kept in its original case stamped in gold letters: PONT ALEXANDRE III, which unfortunately no longer closes completely..
Construction work on the Alexandre III Bridge began in 1896, before being inaugurated by President Félix Faure and Tsar Nicholas II on the occasion of the latter's visit to the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900.. The quatrain reproduced on the right is taken from the poem Salut à l'Empereur, by José Maria de Heredia.
Inaugurated for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the bridge was intended to symbolize Franco-Russian friendship, established by the signing of the alliance concluded in 1891 between Emperor Alexander III (1845-1894) and the President of the French Republic Sadi Carnot.. The first stone was laid by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure on October 7, 1896.. The construction of this work of art was entrusted to the engineers Jean Résal and Amédée Alby, as well as to the architects Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin.
Built along the axis of the Esplanade des Invalides, it leads from there to the Petit and Grand Palais, also built for the Universal Exhibition..
On the column, on the right bank downstream, was engraved this inscription: \\\"On April 14, 1900, Émile Loubet, President of the French Republic, opened the Universal Exhibition and inaugurated the Alexandre III Bridge.\\\".
Historical background
III REPUBLIC
(4/09/1870-10/07/1940)
The news of the capitulation of Sedan provokes the revolution of September 4, 1870 in Paris. Proclaimed at the Hôtel de Ville, the Republic is endowed with a provisional government called the Government of National Defense. Threatened on the left by the insurrection of the Commune and on the right by the monarchists, the new regime had a difficult start.. Initially head of the executive power (February 1871), Thiers was responsible for reorganizing the country before choosing its form of government.. He became President of the Republic in August 1871 and, despite his action to liberate the territory, had to leave his post in March 1873 in the face of royalist opposition.. He is then replaced by Mac-Mahon favorable to the restoration of the monarchy but this one is not restored following the question of the flag. The law of the septennat was then put in place in November 1873 and then, in 1875, the fundamental laws were passed which served as the Constitution of the Third Republic.. Parliamentary system, it is characterized in particular by the clear preponderance of the legislative power on the executive power. Anticlerical, the Third Republic makes school free, secular and compulsory but continues the colonial policy for its economic, strategic and moral ambitions. Separation of Church and State was passed in 1905.. The idea of revenge on Germany and significant nationalism are at the heart of the Boulangist crisis, the Panama scandal or the Dreyfus affair of the years 1886-1899, while foreign policy is very active, particularly in Morocco and that the arms race develops. The First World War was expensive for France, which only recovered from 1920 or even 1928 for the coin with the "Poincaré" franc.. The crisis of 1929 is felt only from 1932 but lasts until 1939, a period during which ministerial instability is very important. Wavering in 1934, the Third Republic found a new unitary cement with anti-fascism which enabled the Popular Front to come to power in 1936.. But, paralyzed against Germany, France was then bogged down in a "phony war" and then suffered one of the greatest defeats in its history in June 1940.. Gathered in the National Assembly in Vichy on July 10, 1940, the Chambers, although elected in 1936, voted full powers to Pétain in a sort of collective suicide by 569 votes for, 80 votes against and 18 abstentions..
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