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THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN MEDALS VOLUME I - MEDALS
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THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN MEDALS VOLUME I - MEDALS
Large fold…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN MEDALS VOLUME I - MEDALS
Large folder containing 50 gilt medals in capsules (silver 925°/°° gold plated Ø 44 mm 1 950 g) representing the kings and queens of France as well as famous people, events, monuments...
from 481 to 1778: Clovis, Charlemagne, Hugues Capet, Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Philippe Auguste, Saint Louis, Philippe IV le Bel, Étienne Marcel, Charles V, Duguesclin, Jeanne d'Arc, Louis XI, François I, Battle of Marignan, Catherine de Médicis, Jacques Cartier, Château de Chambord, Rabelais, Guillaume Budé, Ronsard,
Saint Bartholomew's Day, Ivry, Edict of Nantes, Henri IV, Sully, Assassination of Henri IV, Louis XIII, Cardinal de Richelieu, Siege of La Rochelle, Anne of Austria, Cardinal de Mazarin, Louis XIV, Treaty of the Pyrenees, Château de Versailles, Hôtel des Invalides, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean de la Fontaine, the Académie française, the Palais du Louvre, Philippe d'Orléans, Louis XV, the Battle of Fontenoy, Voltaire, Diderot, Manufacture de Sèvres, J.-J. Rousseau.
Reverse sides bear the characteristics of the subject presented on the obverse.
Examples
Clovis 481-511 "Founder of the Merovingian dynasty, extended his domination over almost all of Gaul".
Joan of Arc liberates Orléans 1429 "Joan fought victoriously against the English. Captured and convicted of hereticism, she was sentenced to the stake.
The Château de Chambord, Jewel of the French Renaissance 1519. "Built on the orders and to the glory of François I, this Renaissance masterpiece is now part of France's artistic heritage.
Saint Bartholomew's Day, the atrocious image of religious wars 1572. "Thousands of Protestants gathered in Paris. Charles IX, urged on by his mother, gave the signal for the massacre - 24 August 1572".
The edge of each medal bears the hallmark of the State, the hallmark of the Master of the Medaillier, the year of minting, the mark Proof, the number of the issue of the subscriber n° 19.
Fifty medals in vermeil.
Strictly limited first edition. Proofs. Superb.
THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN MEDALS, VOLUME I - MEDALS
WEIGHT: 1,950 g - 68.78 OZ
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