France - Lyon matrize Prägestempel für die Medaille der Société des Voraces, Lyon, um 1848. XF

France, original die (matrix) for the medal of the Société des Voraces, Lyon, around 1848.

This is the die with which the medal of the Voraces was struck. The die carries, in mirror image, the design of the obverse: beneath a radiant sun a bust of Marianne (Liberty) on a pedestal, with four raised bayonets behind her, surrounded by six flags bearing inscriptions. In the field DROITS DE L'HOMME RECONQUIS 1848, and around it the dates 1789, 1793, 28 29 JUILLET 1830, VIVRE EN TRAVAILLANT LYON 1831, MOURIR EN COMBATTANT LYON 1834 and 25 26 FÉVRIER 1848. In the exergue SOCIÉTÉ DES VORACES.

The Voraces were the silk weavers of the Croix-Rousse in Lyon, who rose up in February 1848. The medal struck from this die is held in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, under the numbers ND8761 and ND8980. This is the die itself, not the medal.

The six flags on the medal each carry a date, and together they tell one story. 1789 and 1793 stand for the French Revolution and the First Republic. July 1830 for the July Revolution in Paris. Lyon 1831 and 1834 for the two uprisings of the silk weavers themselves, with their motto to live by working or to die by fighting. And February 1848 for the fall of the king and the new Republic. Each date points back to an earlier rising of the people. By placing them together on the medal, the Voraces set their own struggle of 1848 in that same long line.

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