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Auction 93  5 May 2015
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Lot 532

Estimate: 300 GBP
Price realized: 320 GBP
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Silver Medal, 1685, by Henri Roussel, bust of the King to right, rev The figure of Religion before a church, cross held high, tramples on a prone Protestant (Heresy), 44.5mm (TN III, 25, 1). Extremely fine.
The Edict of Nantes was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau. Louis XIV ordered the destruction of Protestant (Huguenot) Churches and Schools causing a mass emigration to Protestant and Protestant-tolerant countries.

Estimate: £300-400
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