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Auction 49 5 Oct 2021
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France, Michel Le Tellier (1603-1685), Marquis de Barbezieux, Seigneur de Chaville, d'Etang and de Viroflay, Statesman and Chancellor of France, small copper tribute medal, 1684, by Jérôme Roussel (1686–1713?), MICH LE TELLIER FRANC CANCELLARIVS, bust r., in gown and wearing badge of the Saint-Esprit, rev. FORTUNATAE VIRTVTI, Justice std. and crowned by Minerva and Truth, in ex. FILIORVM PIETAS MDCLXXXIV, 32mm. (cf. TN III, 23, 5), virtually mint state, with much original redness, very rare
Larger variations of the medal are found by Francesco Bertinetti (130mm.), Thomas Bernard (87mm.), Abraham Dupré (87mm.) and Anton Mebusch (62mm.)
Le Tellier had encouraged the persecution of the Huguenots and influenced Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes, thus ending all the religious freedoms that had been granted to the Protestants. Oddly, he was to die whilst still at Versailles, just 15 days after he and the King had signed the revocation.
(70-90 GBP)
Larger variations of the medal are found by Francesco Bertinetti (130mm.), Thomas Bernard (87mm.), Abraham Dupré (87mm.) and Anton Mebusch (62mm.)
Le Tellier had encouraged the persecution of the Huguenots and influenced Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes, thus ending all the religious freedoms that had been granted to the Protestants. Oddly, he was to die whilst still at Versailles, just 15 days after he and the King had signed the revocation.
(70-90 GBP)