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Medal in bronze from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted in 1975.
Beautiful copy.
Engraver : MM Kreppelin.
Dimension : 68mm.
Weight : 191 g.
Metal : bronze .
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze + 1975.
Quick and neat delivery.
The support is not for sale.
The stand is not for sale.
Le Puy-en-Velay (pronounced [lə pɥi.ɑ̃.və.lɛ]Note 1), formerly Le Puy, is a French commune, prefecture of the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Puy-en-Velay had 19,215 inhabitants in 2019 and its inhabitants are called Ponots. Its urban unit had 38,623 inhabitants in 2019. It is at the center of an intercommunity, the agglomeration community of Puy-en-Velay, comprising 72 municipalities and 82,871 inhabitants in 2018.
Historic capital of Velay in the south-eastern part of the Massif Central, the town is renowned for its manufacturing of Puy lace, the cultivation of Puy green lentils and the production of Velay verbena. It is also known for being the start of the Via Podiensis, one of the four French Camino de Santiago.
Since the 19th century, numerous discoveries have shown that the Velay and its plateaus were crisscrossed by man during the Paleolithic. Groups of hunter-gatherers have thus left clues of their passage along the waterways of Velay, in particular in the natural shelters formed under the basalt organs overlooking certain valleys. Some of these stations were discovered and then studied all around Puy (Rivaux site in Espaly-Saint-Marcel, Laborde shelter (also known as Baume Vallée shelter49) near the Beaume Cascade in Solignac-sur-Loire) 50. The Magdalenian culture (from -17,000 to -12,000 BC) is particularly represented in these shelters discovered along the valleys of the Loire and its tributaries, at Solignac-sur-Loire (abri de la Baume), Saint -Pierre-Eynac (Peylenc shelter), Blavozy, Polignac (Rond-du-Barry cave, Sainte-Anne caves, Rochelimagne site), to name only the main deposits50. The Chasséen is well represented in Espaly (Rivaux and Cormail site). Even today, investigations are regularly carried out on several of these sites under the leadership of archaeologist Jean-Paul Raynal (CNRS) and the association L'Archéo-logis51.
Debates on the contemporaneity of men and the volcanoes of Velay were intense throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, mobilizing the energy of great local scholars such as Auguste Aymard, notably during the discovery of the “Man of Denise » on Mont Denise (Solignac side) in 1844.
The fever stone in the north apse of the apse of Puy-en-Velay cathedral.
In Puy itself, a few isolated discoveries of objects and bones testify to a Neolithic occupation, without a stable habitat having been identified. The majority of discoveries were documented in the 19th century by members of the Society of Agriculture, Arts, Sciences and Commerce of Puy, during road work. On February 5, 1849, a burial probably dating from the Neolithic, containing three individuals and serrated flints was for example found near the current Henri Vinay garden, on the former large prairie of Breuil52.
Notre-Dame Cathedral itself houses a stone brought from beyond the Puy basin, already cited in the legends of the sanctuary under the name of the fever stone: this large slab of phonolite, polished by the passage of pilgrims who are accustomed to lying there in the hope of a cure, comes from a neighboring massif (the Meygal or the Mézenc); this element could testify to the existence of a prehistoric burial or place of worship on Corneille Rock, well before the installation of an ancient and then medieval sanctuary, which would have preserved and reused the slab53.
Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
If objects dating from La Tène and then from the Gallo-Roman era have been discovered in large numbers in Puy-en-Velay since the 19th century54, proving that the town did not appear during the first centuries of Christianity, the question of a possible ancient agglomeration and its monuments remained unresolved for a long time, as well as its status within ancient Velay.
The Celtic people of the Vellaves (Vellavii) are cited by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, when Vercingetorix, besieged in Alésia in 52 BC. BC, requested reinforcements from the Arverni, to which the Vellaves had been “for a long time subject”, in the same way as other territories of the Massif Central (Eleutetes, Gabales and Cadurques)55.
As the name of this Gallic people was not transmitted as is often the case to their ancient capital, but only to their territory (Velay), the question of its location has long agitated local historians. It seems today accepted that the first chief town of the Vellaves was not the current site of Le Puy, but Ruessium, the current Saint-Paulien 15 km from Le Puy, the only one mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century of our era, and which also appears on an itinerary of the Puisinger Table56. The much later mention of Le Puy, which appears for the first time under the name of Anicium at the end of the 6th century under the pen of Gregory of Tours57, was not
Puy-en-Velay had 19,215 inhabitants in 2019 and its inhabitants are called Ponots. Its urban unit had 38,623 inhabitants in 2019. It is at the center of an intercommunity, the agglomeration community of Puy-en-Velay, comprising 72 municipalities and 82,871 inhabitants in 2018.
Historic capital of Velay in the south-eastern part of the Massif Central, the town is renowned for its manufacturing of Puy lace, the cultivation of Puy green lentils and the production of Velay verbena. It is also known for being the start of the Via Podiensis, one of the four French Camino de Santiago.
Since the 19th century, numerous discoveries have shown that the Velay and its plateaus were crisscrossed by man during the Paleolithic. Groups of hunter-gatherers have thus left clues of their passage along the waterways of Velay, in particular in the natural shelters formed under the basalt organs overlooking certain valleys. Some of these stations were discovered and then studied all around Puy (Rivaux site in Espaly-Saint-Marcel, Laborde shelter (also known as Baume Vallée shelter49) near the Beaume Cascade in Solignac-sur-Loire) 50. The Magdalenian culture (from -17,000 to -12,000 BC) is particularly represented in these shelters discovered along the valleys of the Loire and its tributaries, at Solignac-sur-Loire (abri de la Baume), Saint -Pierre-Eynac (Peylenc shelter), Blavozy, Polignac (Rond-du-Barry cave, Sainte-Anne caves, Rochelimagne site), to name only the main deposits50. The Chasséen is well represented in Espaly (Rivaux and Cormail site). Even today, investigations are regularly carried out on several of these sites under the leadership of archaeologist Jean-Paul Raynal (CNRS) and the association L'Archéo-logis51.
Debates on the contemporaneity of men and the volcanoes of Velay were intense throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, mobilizing the energy of great local scholars such as Auguste Aymard, notably during the discovery of the “Man of Denise » on Mont Denise (Solignac side) in 1844.
The fever stone in the north apse of the apse of Puy-en-Velay cathedral.
In Puy itself, a few isolated discoveries of objects and bones testify to a Neolithic occupation, without a stable habitat having been identified. The majority of discoveries were documented in the 19th century by members of the Society of Agriculture, Arts, Sciences and Commerce of Puy, during road work. On February 5, 1849, a burial probably dating from the Neolithic, containing three individuals and serrated flints was for example found near the current Henri Vinay garden, on the former large prairie of Breuil52.
Notre-Dame Cathedral itself houses a stone brought from beyond the Puy basin, already cited in the legends of the sanctuary under the name of the fever stone: this large slab of phonolite, polished by the passage of pilgrims who are accustomed to lying there in the hope of a cure, comes from a neighboring massif (the Meygal or the Mézenc); this element could testify to the existence of a prehistoric burial or place of worship on Corneille Rock, well before the installation of an ancient and then medieval sanctuary, which would have preserved and reused the slab53.
Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
If objects dating from La Tène and then from the Gallo-Roman era have been discovered in large numbers in Puy-en-Velay since the 19th century54, proving that the town did not appear during the first centuries of Christianity, the question of a possible ancient agglomeration and its monuments remained unresolved for a long time, as well as its status within ancient Velay.
The Celtic people of the Vellaves (Vellavii) are cited by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, when Vercingetorix, besieged in Alésia in 52 BC. BC, requested reinforcements from the Arverni, to which the Vellaves had been “for a long time subject”, in the same way as other territories of the Massif Central (Eleutetes, Gabales and Cadurques)55.
As the name of this Gallic people was not transmitted as is often the case to their ancient capital, but only to their territory (Velay), the question of its location has long agitated local historians. It seems today accepted that the first chief town of the Vellaves was not the current site of Le Puy, but Ruessium, the current Saint-Paulien 15 km from Le Puy, the only one mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century of our era, and which also appears on an itinerary of the Puisinger Table56. The much later mention of Le Puy, which appears for the first time under the name of Anicium at the end of the 6th century under the pen of Gregory of Tours57, was not
In addition to its pilgrimageNote 9, Le Puy also owes part of its prosperity to its lace, mentioned for the first time in 1408. Unfortunately, in 1640, the Parliament of Toulouse, assailed by complaints from the nobles and the bourgeoisie who complained of no longer finding servants (at that time there were 70,000 women in the region making lace on their tiles) banned it. wearing it on clothes, leading to desolation and unemployment among lacemakers. It was then that Saint Francis Régis, a Jesuit father, moved by this situation, managed to have the decision of Parliament annulled.
Le Puy always victoriously resisted the attacks of the Cévennes Huguenots who caused great damage to the cityNote 10. The bishop, Mgr de Sénectaire, took part in the fighting. For many months, Le Puy refused to recognize Henry IV as king of France despite his abjuration.
The importance of the Velay mule trade with neighboring regions was known from the 16th century: the most popular mule routes were those by which wine from Bas-Vivarais went up to Puy and cereals and lentils from the Vellavian highlands went down70 ,71,72.
Detailed article: Velay muleteers.
Eighteenth century
Le Puy in the 18th century73 experienced a situation of quasi-autonomy: the states of Velay sat there but the centers of governance which were Montpellier (generality) and Toulouse (parliament) were
Le Puy always victoriously resisted the attacks of the Cévennes Huguenots who caused great damage to the cityNote 10. The bishop, Mgr de Sénectaire, took part in the fighting. For many months, Le Puy refused to recognize Henry IV as king of France despite his abjuration.
The importance of the Velay mule trade with neighboring regions was known from the 16th century: the most popular mule routes were those by which wine from Bas-Vivarais went up to Puy and cereals and lentils from the Vellavian highlands went down70 ,71,72.
Detailed article: Velay muleteers.
Eighteenth century
Le Puy in the 18th century73 experienced a situation of quasi-autonomy: the states of Velay sat there but the centers of governance which were Montpellier (generality) and Toulouse (parliament) were