Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Funeral of President Carnot, 1894, Silvered-bronze Plaquette, by O Roty, France stands holding a laurel branch, comtemplating the President on his deathbed, wreath on the ground, view of Fourvières basilica (Lyon) in background, rev funeral cortège, the coffin carried by shrouded women towards the Pantheon in Paris, 57mm x 81mm (Maier 101; CGMP 3/358; Forrer VI/237-8). Good very fine.
Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), elected President of France in 1887, was noted for his integrity. On 24 June 1894, after delivering a speech at a public banquet at Lyon, he was stabbed by an Italian anarchist called Sante Jeronimo Caserio and died almost immediately. The stabbing aroused widespread horror and grief, and the president was honoured with an elaborate funeral ceremony in the Panthéon, Paris. Many French streets are named in his memory.
Estimate: £60-80
Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), elected President of France in 1887, was noted for his integrity. On 24 June 1894, after delivering a speech at a public banquet at Lyon, he was stabbed by an Italian anarchist called Sante Jeronimo Caserio and died almost immediately. The stabbing aroused widespread horror and grief, and the president was honoured with an elaborate funeral ceremony in the Panthéon, Paris. Many French streets are named in his memory.
Estimate: £60-80