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France - 1802

Organisation de l`Instruction Publique

Obverse:

Bust of Napoleon

Exergue:

under the bust, ANDRIEU F^T

Size:

40 mm.

Reverse:

a youth seated on a solid cubical seat, on which is inscribed DENON DIREXIT. ANDRIEU FECIT. He appears intently perusing a Greek MSS. roll; at his feet is a chest containing several other similar rolls; over his head a star; on the left, occupying the place of the Legend, the papyrus plant.

Exergue:

L'AN IV DE BONAPARTE L'INSTRUCTION PUB. EST ORGANISÉE.

Laskey:

The policy of Napoleon after again establishing the Catholic Religion throughout the French Republic, extended not only to the souls, but also to the minds of his new subjects, and he adopted a comprehensive, but completely military system of education throughout his dominions, by the establishment of public schools, to which all parents were obliged to send their children, and where they were not only to be taught what the first Consul directed, but also to be brought up under such a system of regularity and subordination, as to make them soldiers in manner and in principle, almost from their earliest infancy. By these means he foresaw that he was certain of having a new race of soldiers; for being brought up with an evident reference to that profession, and means being likewise taken to check internal commerce and manufacture, which was the fact, notwithstanding all his boasted decrees, the young men had no employment, and the necessity of finding support being thus added to the natural love of action in young minds, it is not surprising that his ranks should always have been so rapidly filled, particularly when aided by the severe laws of Conscription.

Bramsen:

Bramsen - 214
Organisation de l'Instruction Publique (Andrieu.)

Tête de Napoléon, à droite.

Rev: Un jeune Romain lisant assis à gauche sur une plinthe. Devant lui, une palme et au-dessus de sa tête, une étoile.

Exergue: L'AN IV DE BONAPARTE L'INSTRUCTION PUB^E. EST ORGANISÉE.

Médaille, 40 mm. T. N. 90, 7; H. m. 27, 60; M. F. 339, 124.

d'Essling:

d'Essling - 982
Organisation de l'Instruction Publique (Andrieu.)

Tête de Bonaparte à dr.

R. Jeune homme ass. lisant.

(T. N. 90.7 - M. 90 - B. 214.) Arg. br. et fonte de Berlin. 40 mm.

Organisation de l`Instruction Publique