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Auction 39  21-25 Jan 2021
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Lot 3537

Starting price: 85 USD
Price realized: 280 USD
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FRANCE: First Republic, gilt AE medal, ND (1793), Hennin-636, 40mm, Robespierre & Cécile Renault medal; MAXIM ROBESPIERRE LE X THERMID AN II J 'AI VOULU VOIR COMMENT ETAIT FAIT UN TYRAN, at center, a pike surmounted by a Phrygian cap and a radiant eye separating two busts facing each other in ovals. Robespierre, bust on the right with caption SA FIN EST CELLE DU CRIME and Cécile Renault, bust on the left with caption CEC. RENAUD, set atop lovely handmade 19th-century wooden box, VF. Cécile-Aimée Renault (1774–1794) was a French woman and royalist accused of trying to assassinate Maximilien Robespierre during the Reign of Terror with two small knives. She was sentenced to death and guillotined on 2 June 1794 (29 prairial year II) in what is now Place de la Nation.

Estimate: 100-150 USD
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