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Auction 49 5 Oct 2021
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France, Claude Joseph Rouget de l'Isle (1760-1836), copper medal, 1833, by Emile Rogat, bust r., rev. all six verses of La Marseillaise, around fasces and Liberty cap, 51mm. (Niggl 1727; A & E 264; Molinari 309; BDM V, 192), extremely fine
*ex DNW auction, 30 June 2004 (lot 1542).
It was whilst serving as an officer in the Army of the Rhine that Rouget de l'Isle wrote La Marseillaise. Ironically, he was a Royalist and had narrowly escaped the guillotine, yet his anthem is forever associated with the Revolution and Republican ideals.
(65-80 GBP)
*ex DNW auction, 30 June 2004 (lot 1542).
It was whilst serving as an officer in the Army of the Rhine that Rouget de l'Isle wrote La Marseillaise. Ironically, he was a Royalist and had narrowly escaped the guillotine, yet his anthem is forever associated with the Revolution and Republican ideals.
(65-80 GBP)