| Location |
France
|
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | Massonnet Éditeur |
| Type | Advertising medallions › Satirical medals |
| Year | 1870 |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 11.42 g |
| Diameter | 33 mm |
| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 441451 |
| References | Collignon 1870-1871# 32 Jean-Pierre Collignon; 1995. La médaille française et l'histoire de la guerre de 1870-1871: Musées de Charleville-Mézières = The French Medal and the History of the War of 1870-1871. Self-published, Charleville-Mézières, France. |
Sedan defeat
Napoleon III wearing a German spiked helmet.
Circular legend in 2 lines separated by 2 skulls.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
NAPOLEON III LE MISERABLE
2 DECEMBRE
Napoleonic eagle with owl's head on a thunderbolt.
Legend in 2 circular lines separated by intersecting bones.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
VAMPIRE DE LA FRANCE
SEDAN 2 SEPbre 1870
MASSONET ED.
Unabridged legend: Sedan 2 septembre 1870
Plain
© lolo70
Same module as 10 centimes Napoléon III.
Following Napoleon III's defeat at Sedan, numerous satirical coins and medals were issued to ridicule the French emperor. Judged responsible for taking 80,000 prisoners, Napoleon III is frequently depicted wearing a spiked helmet and associated with bones, while the imperial eagle has become an owl.
HISTORY
SATIRE - THE 1870 WAR AND THE BATTLE OF SEDAN
During the war of 1870, the army of Châlons commanded by Mac-Mahon counted Napoleon III's presence from August 15 onwards, and tried to rescue Bazaine, who was trapped in Metz with the Army of the Rhine. On August 21, the Châlons army set off to join Mac-Mahon, but he was surrounded. Defeated on several occasions, notably at Beaumont, the army was rejected and encircled at Sedan by the Prussian generalissimo Moltke, despite the efforts of Major Lambert who, wounded, fought with his marsouins to the last cartridge. On September 2, 1870, crushed by German artillery fire, Napoleon III and 83,000 French soldiers surrendered to the Prussian king. On September 3, Napoleon III and Wilhelm I met, while Paris learned of the Emperor's defeat and captivity. Demonstrations erupted with cries of "déchéance! déchéance!". On September 4, Napoleon III was deposed and a government of national defense was set up.
SOURCE CGB.fr
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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