Medal on Louis XVI of France and the abolition of the privileges of the First and Second EstateParis, 1789 Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (1730 Paris - 1819 ibid.) and Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux (1751 Paris - 1832 ibid.)Bronze, brown patinated. Fire-gilt copper frame. Diameter 6 cm.Inscriptions: LOUIS XVI RESTAURATEUR DE LA LIBERTE FRANCAISE / B Du VIVIER S(culpsit). ABANDON DE TOUS LES PRIVILEGES / ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE IV. AOUT / MDCCLXXXIX. M. JOS. ET.e BORDIER DÉPUTÉ DU BAILLAGE DE NEMOURS AUX ÉTATS GÉNÉRAUX DE 1789 ADVERSUS DOMINUM ET ADVERSUS CHRISTUM EIUS FREMUERUNT GENTES ET POPULI MEDITATI SUNT INANIAProvenance: Joseph-Etienne Bordier (1754-1813), member of the National Assembly, Nemours (1790/91) - Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired in 1975 in the Black-Nadeau Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco)Cf. Hennin, Michel, Histoire Numismatique de la Révolution Française. Paris 1826, page 44 plate 8. Provenance Joseph-Etienne Bordier (1754-1813), Mitglied der Nationalversammlung, Nemours (1790/91) - Privatsammlung, Rheinland-Pfalz (1975 in der Black-Nadeau Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, erworben) Notes RefFine