Medal - Napoleon Orphelines de la Légion D'Honneur
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Features
| Location |
France
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Üyelik madalyaları |
| Yıl | 1810 |
| Composition | Bakır |
| Ağırlık | 38 g |
| Diameter | 41 mm |
| Kalınlık | 3.5 mm |
| Şekil | Yuvarlak |
| Technique | Öğütülmüş |
| Orientation | Madalya Hizalaması ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Evet |
| Numara | N# 111587 |
| Referanslar | Zeitz Napoleon# 118 Lisa Zeitz, Joachim Zeitz; 2003. Napoleons Medaillen: "Die einzigen Zeugnisse des Ruhms, die alle Jahrhunderte überdauern." = Napoleonic Medals. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, Hesse, Germany. Ludwig Bramsen. Medaillier Napoleon le Grand. Picard, Paris, France (3 volumes).Sammlung Julius; 1958. Krieg und Frieden auf der Medaille und in der Gedenkmünze = War and Peace on the Medal and Commemorative Coin. Münzhandlung R. Gaettens, Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. , BDM I# 559 Leonard Forrer; 1904. Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin-Gem, and Seal engravers, Mintmasters, &c. Ancient and Modern / Volume I, A-D (Reviced). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. |
Commemorative issue
Légion d'honneur Üyelerinin Yetimleri
Obverse
(en) Laureate bust of Napoleon Bonaparte right. Lettering on two lines below neck truncation. Lettering on left and right of bust
Lettering:
NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI
ANDRIEU F.
DENON DIRt.
Gravürcü: Jean-Bertrand Andrieu
Reverse
(en) A young female orphan seated facing right in attitude of mourning, resting at the foot of a tombstone which bears the insignia of the Legion of Honour. On her lap lies a closed book on which her hand rests. Over the tomb a laurel tree spreads its branches, from which a wreath is suspended. In the background at right a work basket of sewing materials. Near rim at left and right is small lettering. Lettering and date in Roman numerals in exergue
Script: Latince
Lettering:
ORPHELINES DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR
MDCCCX
DENON. D.
DEPAULIS. F.
Gravürcü: Alexis-Joseph Depaulis
Edge
Sade
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Mint
Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)Comments
(en) Paris Mint, France. Medal commemorating the Orphans of the Members of the Légion d'honneur, 1810
There is also a silver version. Ess.1315.
Reference: Laskey CXVIII - [Book] J. C. Laskey, Medals Struck at the National Medal Mint by Order of Napoleon Bonaparte
Another version has same reverse but Henry IV portrait on obverse.
Significance: "Napoleon having established an Asylum for the female orphans of those who had received the honorable insignia of the Legion of Honour, the establishment was endowed and fixed in the Rue Barbette, No. 2, at Paris, under the name of the Maison Royale des Orphelines de la Legion d'Honneur: here 300 girls are educated by the sect of religious women, designated by the name of Dames de la Mere de Dieu." Laskey p. 192 (written in 1818).
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747 - 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum.
Closer images of lettering under bust on obverse and in exergue on reverse
Closer images of lettering on left and right of reverse
There is also a silver version. Ess.1315.
Reference: Laskey CXVIII - [Book] J. C. Laskey, Medals Struck at the National Medal Mint by Order of Napoleon Bonaparte
Another version has same reverse but Henry IV portrait on obverse.
Significance: "Napoleon having established an Asylum for the female orphans of those who had received the honorable insignia of the Legion of Honour, the establishment was endowed and fixed in the Rue Barbette, No. 2, at Paris, under the name of the Maison Royale des Orphelines de la Legion d'Honneur: here 300 girls are educated by the sect of religious women, designated by the name of Dames de la Mere de Dieu." Laskey p. 192 (written in 1818).
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747 - 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum.
Closer images of lettering under bust on obverse and in exergue on reverse
Closer images of lettering on left and right of reverse
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