MEDAILLE en ARGENT pour la CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LILLE par LEFEBVRE

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Vendeur: french_risque ✉️ (197) 100%, Lieu où se trouve: halluin, FR, Lieu de livraison: WORLDWIDE, Numéro de l'objet: 305475741779 MEDAILLE en ARGENT pour la CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LILLE par LEFEBVRE. Médaille de la Chambre de commerce de Lille en 1900, représentant l'exil de Philippe de Girard et la Vieille-Bourse. Avers : Philippe de Girard âgé, assis à gauche devant la frontière française comme l'indique le panneau du second plan. En arrière-plan, les cheminées d’une usine textile. Signature de l'artiste H.LEFEBVRE en creux sur le soubassement du banc. Légende : CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LILLE / A PHILIPPE DE GIRARD / INVENTEUR DE LA FILATURE MECANIQUE DU LIN Revers : dans un cercle délimité par un premier plan remplissant, débordant l'exergue et mordant sur la légende, une vue de trois quart de la Vieille-bourse (ancienne chambre du commerce à Lille). A la place de l'exergue traditionnelle, les symboles de l’agriculture et de l’industrie du Nord-Pas-de-Calais : le houblon et ses cônes, marteau, tenaille, cornues, roue dentée, arbre de transmission, épis de lin en fruits et l'écu de gueules à la fleur de lys d'argent sur un diplôme. Légende : INDUSTRIE - AGRICULTURE. Diamètre : 47 mm Masse : 52,5 grMétal : argent 950/1000 Solid silver medal  coined in 1900 for the Chamber of Commerce of Lille, representing the exile of Philippe de Girard and the Vieille-Bourse. Obverse :  elderly Philippe de Girard, seated on the left in front of the French border as indicated by the panel in the background. In the background, the chimneys of a textile factory. Signature of the artist H.LEFEBVRE hollow on the base of the bench. Caption: "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LILLE / A PHILIPPE DE GIRARD / INVENTOR OF MECHANICAL FLAX SPINNING" Reverse :  in a circle delimited by a foreground filling, overflowing the exergue and biting on the legend, a three-quarter view of the Vieille-bourse (former chamber of commerce in Lille). Instead of the traditional epigraph, the symbols of agriculture and industry in Nord-Pas-de-Calais: hops and their cones, hammer, pliers, retorts, cogwheels, transmission shafts, ears of flax in fruits and the shield of gules a fleur-de-lys argent on a diploma. Caption: "INDUSTRY - AGRICULTURE" Diameter : 47 m m or 1.85 inch. Weight : 52,5 grams Metal : 950/1000 solid silver ("1ARGENT" & cornucopia foudry mark from the Paris Mint on edge) About artist :  Hippolyte-Jules Lefèbvre (4 February 1863 - November 1935) was a French sculptor and medallist who received numerous official marks of recognition in his day but is now largely forgotten. His most prominent works are the monumental equestrian sculptures of Joan of Arc and Louis IX of France, set up on the Basilique du Sacré Cœur, Paris. From a working-class background, he made his first studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Lille, where he won numerous prizes and was sent with a municipal scholarship to study at the École des beaux-arts, Paris In 1882 he moved to Paris, where he was a pupil of Pierre-Jules Cavelier, Louis-Ernest Barrias and Jules Coutan. He began exhibiting regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1887, and in 1892, after receiving seconds in 1888 and 1891, won the Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture; on his return to Paris he pursued a successful official career. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and an officer in 1925. Aside from Sacré-Coeur, where he also provided sculpture for the high altar, his public sculpture is to be seen also at the Grand Palais, Paris, where he received a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). His kneeling funeral figure of Léon-Adolphe Cardinal Amette, 1923, is in the Chapel of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Notre-Dame de Paris. He was called upon to provide sculpture for a number of monuments to the fallen of World War I. His Jeunes Aveugles (1902) won a medal of honor and was purchased for the collections at the Palais du Luxembourg, Paris. His work may also be found on the Opéra de Lille, 1914; the Allegory of the Republic in the cour d'honneur of the French embassy in Vienna (built 1904); a marble Niobe at the Tour de Roland, Arles; and at the Hôtel de Ville, Roubaix. Lefebvre was often called upon to make commemorative medals, such as one celebrating the centenary of Argentine independence, 1910; one commemorating Jules Gosset, for the Société des Sciences, Lille; one that the architect Louis M. Cordonnier, member of the Institut de France, distributed to friends and colleagues, 26 January 1912; Fondation Firmin Rainbeaux, 1930. About De Girard : Philippe Henri de Girard (February 1, 1775 – August 26, 1845 aged 70) was a French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame in 1810, and the person after whom the town of Żyrardów in Poland was named. He was also the uncredited inventor of food preservation using tin cans. Girard was born in the village of Lourmarin in the département of Vaucluse, France, to a wealthy aristocratic family. As a child, he was sent by his parents to some of the most notable French schools of the era. However, in the effect of the French Revolution, his family was forced to flee France and young Philippe had to abandon his studies in order to help his family earn money for living. Later, Philippe and his elder brother  Charles-Frédéric  took part in the siege of Toulon against the artillery captain Bonaparte (future emproro Napoleon). Confronted with his mastery during the cannonade of Mont Faron, the two brothers deserted and fled with other Federals in an English boat on December 18, 1793. Their father and their brother Camille, who shared the same ideas, left Lourmarin and take refuge in Switzerland, while Philippe and Charles settle in Livorno. Philippe is portayed on this medal during his exile.  In May 1810 Napoleon I tried to stop English cotton fabrics from entering the continent of Europe and offered a reward of one million francs to any inventor who could devise the best machinery for the spinning of flax yarn. After only a short period Philippe de Girard took out a French patent for important inventions for both dry and wet methods of spinning flax. He was not awarded the prize money and failed to gain the recognition he felt was deserved. He had been counting on the prize money to pay the expenses of his invention, and he got into serious financial difficulties. So he accepted, when in 1815 he was invited by the Austrian government to establish a spinning mill in Hirtenberg near Vienna, which employed his spinning frames. However, it failed to prove a commercial success. In 1817 Girard returned to France with a prototype of his spinning machinery ready, but the internal situation of France after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte prevented the new French authorities from payment of the debts and eventually, Girard sold his patent to England. His inventions were patented in England in 1814, by Horace Hall (possibly a pseudonym). It would not have been easy for a French man to introduce a new development into England at this point in history. It never really caught on. In the British Isles James Kay was initially credited with the invention. Although, on December 2, 1826, shortly after Kay’s patent was awarded, Girard seems to have been prompted to write to the editor of The Manchester Guardian complaining about this and pointing out he had been the inventor. A court invalidated Kay's patent in 1839, stating it was too similar to Horace Hall's, a decision upheld on appeal in 1841. The fact that Horace Hall made no complaint might suggest this name being a pseudonym. Several years afterward the situation in France improved and Girard started the first modern textile factory in Lille. Initially the business was a failure and Girard almost went bankrupt. In 1825, through an old army connection, baron Piotr Galichet, who had settled in Poland, he was hired by the government of the Kingdom of Poland to help develop a Polish textile industry. He became consultant to the Polish government, as well as the Bank of Poland. Because of the financial support of the latter, in 1831 he organized the first major factory of his project in Marymont near Warsaw. Two years later he was invited by relatives of Galichet, the Łubieński brothers with his business to their estate at Ruda Guzowska, where the factory had better prospects. Soon it became a great success and brought fame and prosperity both to the settlement and to Girard. In honour of Girard, Ruda Guzowska was renamed, Żyrardów, a toponym derived of the polonised spelling of Girard's name. In 1844 Girard returned to France, where he planned to open more factories. However, he died the following year. Apart from the town of Żyrardów (currently one of the biggest satellite towns of Warsaw), Girard had a street and a college in 18th arrondissement of Paris named after him and two secondary schools, one in Żyrardów, the other in Avignon. After his death in Paris, his work was recognised and his descendants were rewarded with a small pension by the French Emperor.
  • Condition: Voir photos, très bon état.
  • Epoque: XXème siècle
  • Type: Médailles françaises
  • Métal: Argent

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