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FRANCE: Napoleon I, as First Consul, 1799-1804, AE medal, 1801, 42mm, bronze meday by B. Duvivier for Charles-Michel de l'Épée; CH MICHEL DELEPEE NE A VERSAILLES 1712, MORT A PARIS 1789 around bust left // AU GENIE / INVENTEUR / DE L'ART D'INSTRUIRE / LES SOURDS-ET-MUETS / DANS LES SCIENCES / ET LES ARTS / B. DUVIVIER / 1801, a superb quality example! NGC graded MS65 BN. Charles-Michel de l'Épée was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (1730–1819) was a French engraver of coins and medals. Benjamin Duvivier's father, the well-known medallist Jean Duvivier, died on 30 April 1761. Benjamin applied to the king to retain the position that his father had occupied in the Louvre Galleries, and on 7 June 1762 this was granted to him, and he thus assumed his father's job as medallist to the King. Benjamin Duvivier probably had more talent than his father. On 24 November 1764 he was accepted as a Member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. On 13 February 1765 he obtained a brevet royal that authorized him to spend a year in Italy. On 21 August 1774 he obtained the position of general engraver of coins, replacing Joseph-Charles Roëttiers.

Estimate: 100-150 USD