King, queen, and dauphin being led by city tyche of Paris, to the Tuileries palace, where a large crowd waits. Around, J'Y FERAI DESORMAIS MA DEMEURE HABITUELLE; lower right, DIVIV; in exergue, ARRIVEE DU ROI A PARIS I LE 6 OCT. 1789
Object Description
294 LOUIS XVI, Entry of Louis XVI into Paris 1789
Obv. Same as no. 292
Rev. King, queen and dauphin being led by city tyche of Paris, to the Tuileries palace, where a large crowd waits. Around, J'Y FERAI DESORMAIS MA DEMEURE HABITUELLE; lower right, DUVIV; in exergue, ARRIVEE DU ROI A PARIS | LE 6 . OCT . 1789
Bronze, struck, 53 mm.
A drawing for this medal is published in Arethuse, fasc. 28 (1930), pl. 14.
Bibl.: Forrer i, p. 686; Nocq, no. 242; Medailles Francaises, no. 10, p. 299; Tresor Resolution, pl. 12, 4; Roger Marx, Les Medailleurs Francais depuis 1789, Paris 1897, p. 4.