202- TIR10

Bronze medal, France.
Minted around 1939.
Some usual wear.
Beautiful old patina.

Engraver / Artist : Paul Marcel DAMMANN (1885-1939).

Dimension: 81mm.
Weight : 232 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge)  : triangle + bronze .

Quick and neat delivery.

The easel is not for sale.
The stand is not for sale.

*Pierre Louis Théophile Georges Goyau, born May 31, 1869 in Orléans and died October 25, 1939 in Bernay, is a French historian and essayist, specialist in religious history. He used the pseudonym Léon Grégoire. Son of Louis-Pierre Goyau (1829-1903), senior veterinarian of the 1st class of the army1, professor of hippology at the military schools of Saint-Cyr and Saumur, officer of the Legion of Honor, and Placide-Joséphine Bezombes , Georges Goyau did his secondary studies at the Lycée d'Orléans, then came to Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He passed the competitive exam for the École Normale Supérieure.

Passed first in the history and geography aggregation in 18912, he became a member of the French school of Rome in 1892.

From 1894, he collaborated with the Revue des deux Mondes and published a large number of works on the history of the Catholic Church, including Religious Germany: Protestantism and Catholicism, The Free Church in the Free Europe, The Religious Origins of Canada, The Catholic Effort in Today's France, Catholicism, Doctrine of Action, The First Half-Century of the Picpucian Apostolate in the Gambier Islands (Beauchesne, Paris. 1928).

The French Academy awarded him the Bordin Prize in 1898 for Religious Germany: Protestantism and the Vitet Prize in 1908.

On November 10, 1903 in Paris (16th), he married Lucie Faure, daughter of Félix Faure3 then, after his widowhood, in a second marriage in 1916, to the Catholic novelist Juliette Heuzey, who published a book on his life and work in 19474. He had no children.

During the First World War, he collaborated with the work of the Red Cross.

Georges Goyau succeeds Cardinal Baudrillart as president of the Academy of Education and Social Studies (AES)5.

On June 15, 1922, he was elected member of the French Academy in the eleventh chair, obtaining in the second round 15 votes against 11 for the writer André Rivoire6. On January 13, 1938, he became its permanent secretary, but he remained so for a short time, dying less than two years later. He was Commander of the Legion of Honor7.

In 1928, he was elected president of the Free Society of Agriculture, Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres de l'Eure, department where he owned a property in Breuil-en-Auge where he lived when he was not at home. Parisian home.

He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (44th division).
Georges Goyau's hostility to the Freemasons
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In his book The Idea of ​​Homeland and Humanitarianism, he explains, citing Masonic sources, that Freemasonry in France served the interests of Prussia before the war of 18708 and without the knowledge of the Masons9.
Works
1891 Chronology of the Roman Empire
1892 From the toast to the Encyclical (with B. and J. Brunhes)
1893 The Pope, Catholics and the social question (under the pseudonym 10 of Léon Grégoire)
1894 Glossary of Roman antiquities (under the direction of R. Cagnat)
1895 The Vatican, the Popes and Civilization (with P. Fabre and A. Pératé)
1897-1912 Around social Catholicism, 5 vols.
1898 Religious Germany: Protestantism
1899 Freemasonry in France
1899-1906 The School of Today, 2 vols.
1900 The Roman Church and the political currents of the century
1900 Tomorrows of unity: Rome, Kingdom of Naples
1903 The Apostle Nations: old France, young Germany
1905-1909 Religious Germany: Catholicism, 4 vols.
1907 Joan of Arc before German public opinion
1911-1913 Bismarck and the Church. The Kulturkampf, 4 vols.
1913 The Idea of ​​Homeland and Humanitarianism
1913 Essay on French history (1866-1901)
1917 German Catholics and the Evangelical Empire
1918 The Ladies of Charity of Monsieur Vincent
1918 Cardinal Mercier11
1919 A ​​City-Church: Geneva, 2 vols.
1919 The Free Church in Free Europe
1920 The Stages of Religious Glory: Saint Joan of Arc
1921 Catholicism, doctrine of action
1921 The Religious Thought of Joseph de Maistre
1921 Catholic Portraits
1921 Franciscan figurines12
1921 Precursors
    1917 German Catholics and the Evangelical Empire
    1918 The Ladies of Charity of Monsieur Vincent
    1918 Cardinal Mercier11
    1919 A ​​City-Church: Geneva, 2 vols.
    1919 The Free Church in Free Europe
    1920 The Stages of Religious Glory: Saint Joan of Arc
    1921 Catholicism, doctrine of action
    1921 The Religious Thought of Joseph de Maistre
    1921 Catholic Portraits
    1921 Franciscan figurines12
    1921 Precursors
    1921 Religious history of France (under the direction of Gabriel Hanotaux)
    1921 Saint Melanie (383-439)13,
    1922 Papacy and Christianity under Benedict XV
    1923 The Life of Books and Souls
    1923 Ozanam
    1923 A great missionary: Cardinal Lavigerie
    1923 Catholic orientations
    1924 A mystical epic. The religious origins of Canada14,
    1925 The Martyrs of New France, Extracts from the Relations and Letters of the Jesuit Missionaries.15 (with Georges Rigault)
    1926 The Face of Christian Rome
    1926 The Catholic Effort in Today's France
    1927 Saint Bernard
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*Pierre Louis Théophile Georges Goyau, born May 31, 1869 in Orléans and died October 25, 1939 in Bernay, is a French historian and essayist, specialist in religious history. He used the pseudonym Léon Grégoire. Son of Louis-Pierre Goyau (1829-1903), senior veterinarian of the 1st class of the army1, professor of hippology at the military schools of Saint-Cyr and Saumur, officer of the Legion of Honor, and Placide-Joséphine Bezombes , Georges Goyau did his secondary studies at the Lycée d'Orléans, then came to Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He passed the competitive exam for the École Normale Supérieure. From 1894, he collaborated with the Revue des deux Mondes and published a large number of works on the history of the Catholic Church, including Religious Germany: Protestantism and Cat