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Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted around 1950.
Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted around 1950.
Old patina, Small shocks on the edge (minimal).
Engraver / Artist / Sculptor : Roger B. BARON (1907-1994) .
Dimensions : 68mm.
Weight : 149 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze.
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The stand is not for sale.
The support is not for sale.
Engraver / Artist / Sculptor : Roger B. BARON (1907-1994) .
Dimensions : 68mm.
Weight : 149 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + bronze.
Quick and neat delivery.
The stand is not for sale.
The support is not for sale.
Jean Rostand, born October 30, 1894 in Paris (17th arrondissement) and died September 4, 1977 in Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine)1, is a French writer, moralist, biologist, historian of science and academician.
Biography
Son of the playwright Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, Jean Rostand spent his childhood at Villa Arnaga, in Cambo-les-Bains (Basque Country)2. At the age of ten he discovered the Entomological Memories of Jean-Henri Fabre. In 1920 he married his first cousin Andrée Mante. They had a son, François (1921–2003). A graduate of science from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, Jean Rostand moved to Ville-d'Avray in 1922 after the death of his father (1918).
He participated in the creation of the biology section at the Palais de la Découverte in 1936, then founded his own independent laboratory in Ville-d'Avray: the family fortune allowed him to stay away from university structures, which he considers it too restrictive. Very interested in the origins of life, he studied the biology of amphibians (frogs, toads, newts and others), parthenogenesis, the action of cold on eggs, and promoted multiple research on heredity2.
Jean Rostand began by publishing a few philosophical essays, then divided his time between his job as a researcher and a very abundant scientific and literary production. With conviction and enthusiasm, he strived to popularize biology to a wide audience (in 1959 he received the Kalinga prize for popularizing science) and to alert public opinion to the seriousness of the human problems it posed. Considering biology as having to be the bearer of morality, he warns against the dangers which threaten humans when they play sorcerers' apprentices, like the proponents of eugenics.
However, Rostand supported a form of "positive eugenics", approving certain writings of Alexis Carrel and the sterilization of people suffering from certain serious forms of mental illness, which was compared, after the war, to the Nazi law of 1933, and was criticized3 in a context where eugenics was still a widespread ideology, with authors such as Julian Huxley, first director of UNESCO (1946-1948).
In 1954, however, he wrote in Thoughts of a Biologist that “All we can for our children is to choose their mother well.” A man of science, biologist, pamphleteer, moralist, Jean Rostand is also a pacifist. Also a feminist, he contributed with Simone de Beauvoir, Christiane Rochefort and a few others to creating the feminist movement Choosing the Cause of Women.
In 1962 he created with Pierre Darré the research center which today bears his name in Pouydesseaux in Hautes-Landes. This land and the laboratories installed there house the “monster ponds” where Rostand carried out a significant part of his research on amphibian anomalies between 1962 and 1975. It highlights the various biological agents (micro-organisms, viruses) or chemical agents (pesticide substances) responsible for malformations in amphibians4.
He is a member of the Patronage Committee of the French Federation Against Atomic Armaments5. In 1963 he was co-founder, with Claude Bourdet, and honorary president of the MCAA (Movement Against Atomic Armament) which in 1968 became the Movement for Disarmament, Peace and Freedom (MDPL)6. In 1965 he signed with Albert Schweitzer and the Polynesian deputy John Teariki a solemn protest against the fate that the French Government decided to impose on the inhabitants of French Polynesia and other Pacific territories by the French nuclear tests at Moruroa7. In February 1968, with René Dumont, Théodore Monod, Bernard Clavel, Lanza del Vasto and dozens of people, he signed a letter of support to those who returned their military booklets to protest against the nuclear strike force8. He will support the Action and Resistance to Militarization Group, initiator of this document, in particular during its actions against the command post of the nuclear strike force at Mont Verdun9,10,11. He declares himself a “Citizen of the World”12,13. Agnostic, free thinker, honorary president of Freethought, he shows a great open-mindedness and a lot of intellectual honesty. During the Bobigny trial on abortion in 1972 he testified in favor of the right to abortion.
One of his quotes will remain throughout time: “Science has made us gods, even before we deserved to be men. »
Jean Rostand entered the French Academy in 1959 and continued his information campaigns during conferences, on the radio and on television.
Installed since 1922 in Ville-d'Avray, in the house occupied by Valtesse de La Bigne, he lived there until his death in 1977. He is buried in the cemetery of Ville-d'Avray14.
Tributes
In addition to the “Jea” research center
Biography
Son of the playwright Edmond Rostand and the poet Rosemonde Gérard, Jean Rostand spent his childhood at Villa Arnaga, in Cambo-les-Bains (Basque Country)2. At the age of ten he discovered the Entomological Memories of Jean-Henri Fabre. In 1920 he married his first cousin Andrée Mante. They had a son, François (1921–2003). A graduate of science from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, Jean Rostand moved to Ville-d'Avray in 1922 after the death of his father (1918).
He participated in the creation of the biology section at the Palais de la Découverte in 1936, then founded his own independent laboratory in Ville-d'Avray: the family fortune allowed him to stay away from university structures, which he considers it too restrictive. Very interested in the origins of life, he studied the biology of amphibians (frogs, toads, newts and others), parthenogenesis, the action of cold on eggs, and promoted multiple research on heredity2.
Jean Rostand began by publishing a few philosophical essays, then divided his time between his job as a researcher and a very abundant scientific and literary production. With conviction and enthusiasm, he strived to popularize biology to a wide audience (in 1959 he received the Kalinga prize for popularizing science) and to alert public opinion to the seriousness of the human problems it posed. Considering biology as having to be the bearer of morality, he warns against the dangers which threaten humans when they play sorcerers' apprentices, like the proponents of eugenics.
However, Rostand supported a form of "positive eugenics", approving certain writings of Alexis Carrel and the sterilization of people suffering from certain serious forms of mental illness, which was compared, after the war, to the Nazi law of 1933, and was criticized3 in a context where eugenics was still a widespread ideology, with authors such as Julian Huxley, first director of UNESCO (1946-1948).
In 1954, however, he wrote in Thoughts of a Biologist that “All we can for our children is to choose their mother well.” A man of science, biologist, pamphleteer, moralist, Jean Rostand is also a pacifist. Also a feminist, he contributed with Simone de Beauvoir, Christiane Rochefort and a few others to creating the feminist movement Choosing the Cause of Women.
In 1962 he created with Pierre Darré the research center which today bears his name in Pouydesseaux in Hautes-Landes. This land and the laboratories installed there house the “monster ponds” where Rostand carried out a significant part of his research on amphibian anomalies between 1962 and 1975. It highlights the various biological agents (micro-organisms, viruses) or chemical agents (pesticide substances) responsible for malformations in amphibians4.
He is a member of the Patronage Committee of the French Federation Against Atomic Armaments5. In 1963 he was co-founder, with Claude Bourdet, and honorary president of the MCAA (Movement Against Atomic Armament) which in 1968 became the Movement for Disarmament, Peace and Freedom (MDPL)6. In 1965 he signed with Albert Schweitzer and the Polynesian deputy John Teariki a solemn protest against the fate that the French Government decided to impose on the inhabitants of French Polynesia and other Pacific territories by the French nuclear tests at Moruroa7. In February 1968, with René Dumont, Théodore Monod, Bernard Clavel, Lanza del Vasto and dozens of people, he signed a letter of support to those who returned their military booklets to protest against the nuclear strike force8. He will support the Action and Resistance to Militarization Group, initiator of this document, in particular during its actions against the command post of the nuclear strike force at Mont Verdun9,10,11. He declares himself a “Citizen of the World”12,13. Agnostic, free thinker, honorary president of Freethought, he shows a great open-mindedness and a lot of intellectual honesty. During the Bobigny trial on abortion in 1972 he testified in favor of the right to abortion.
One of his quotes will remain throughout time: “Science has made us gods, even before we deserved to be men. »
Jean Rostand entered the French Academy in 1959 and continued his information campaigns during conferences, on the radio and on television.
Installed since 1922 in Ville-d'Avray, in the house occupied by Valtesse de La Bigne, he lived there until his death in 1977. He is buried in the cemetery of Ville-d'Avray14.
Tributes
In addition to the “Jea” research center
Family
Married to his first cousin, the sculptor Andrée Mante (1892-1980), daughter of the industrialist Louis Mante and Juliette Mante-Rostand, Jean Rostand had a son, François Rostand (1921-2003), who died without issue.
Titles and distinctions
Member of the Zoological Society of France (1950)16
Grand Literary Prize of the City of Paris (1951)
Honorary President of the Zoological Society of France (1953)
Singer-Polignac Foundation Grand Prize (1955)
Member of the French Academy (1959)
Honorary President of the Movement Against Atomic Weapons (1963)
Education Prize awarded by the Institute of Life of the MGEN foundation (Mutuelle général de l'Éducation nationale) (1975)
Honorary President of the Freethought Congress (1976)
Founder of the International Anti-Nuclear Front against nuclear power plants (1976)
Île Jean-Rostand was named in his honor.
Literary work
The Return of the Poor (Paris, Stock, 1919 - published under the pseudonym Jean Sokori)
The Law of the Rich (Paris, Grasset, 1920)
While we still suffer (Paris, Grasset, 1921)
Ignace or the writer (Paris, Fasquelle, 1923)
Two Anxieties: death, love (Paris, Fasquelle, 1924)
On vanity and some other subjects (Paris, Fasquelle, 1925)
Les Familiotes and other essays on bourgeois mysticism (Paris, Fasquelle, 1925)
On the love of ideas (Paris, Aveline, 1926)
The Wedding (Paris, Hachette, 1927)
Valère or the exasperated (Paris, Fasquelle, 1927)
Julien or a conscience (Paris, Fasquelle, 1928)
Journal of a character (Paris, Fasquelle, 1931)
Thoughts of a biologist (Paris, Delamain and Boutelleau, 1939) (new ed. Stock, 1954; reed. pocket I Read, 1973)
New thoughts of a biologist (Paris, Stock, 1947)
Notes d'un biologiste (Les Pharmaciens bibliophiles, 1954), book with burin engravings by Albert Flocon and accompanied by the menu for Mars 23 at the Hôtel Lutetia.
Scientific work
Chromosomes, artisans of heredity and sex (Paris, Hachette, 1928)
The Formation of Being. History of transformist ideas (Paris, Hachette, 1932) [identical reissue attested in 1948]
The Human Adventure (Paris, Fasquelle, 3 volumes, 1933-1935)
The Life of Toads (Paris, Stock, 1933)
The Problems of Heredity and Sex (Paris, Rieder, 1933)
In collaboration with Augustin Boutaric and Pierre Sergescu: Sciences. Mathematical sciences, biological sciences, physicochemical sciences, (Paris, Denoël, 1933)
The Life of Dragonflies (Paris, Stock, 1935)
Insects (Paris, Flammarion, 1936)
In collaboration with Lucien Cuénot: Introduction to genetics (Paris, Tournier and Constans, 1936)
The New Biology (Paris, Fasquelle, 1937)
Married to his first cousin, the sculptor Andrée Mante (1892-1980), daughter of the industrialist Louis Mante and Juliette Mante-Rostand, Jean Rostand had a son, François Rostand (1921-2003), who died without issue.
Titles and distinctions
Member of the Zoological Society of France (1950)16
Grand Literary Prize of the City of Paris (1951)
Honorary President of the Zoological Society of France (1953)
Singer-Polignac Foundation Grand Prize (1955)
Member of the French Academy (1959)
Honorary President of the Movement Against Atomic Weapons (1963)
Education Prize awarded by the Institute of Life of the MGEN foundation (Mutuelle général de l'Éducation nationale) (1975)
Honorary President of the Freethought Congress (1976)
Founder of the International Anti-Nuclear Front against nuclear power plants (1976)
Île Jean-Rostand was named in his honor.
Literary work
The Return of the Poor (Paris, Stock, 1919 - published under the pseudonym Jean Sokori)
The Law of the Rich (Paris, Grasset, 1920)
While we still suffer (Paris, Grasset, 1921)
Ignace or the writer (Paris, Fasquelle, 1923)
Two Anxieties: death, love (Paris, Fasquelle, 1924)
On vanity and some other subjects (Paris, Fasquelle, 1925)
Les Familiotes and other essays on bourgeois mysticism (Paris, Fasquelle, 1925)
On the love of ideas (Paris, Aveline, 1926)
The Wedding (Paris, Hachette, 1927)
Valère or the exasperated (Paris, Fasquelle, 1927)
Julien or a conscience (Paris, Fasquelle, 1928)
Journal of a character (Paris, Fasquelle, 1931)
Thoughts of a biologist (Paris, Delamain and Boutelleau, 1939) (new ed. Stock, 1954; reed. pocket I Read, 1973)
New thoughts of a biologist (Paris, Stock, 1947)
Notes d'un biologiste (Les Pharmaciens bibliophiles, 1954), book with burin engravings by Albert Flocon and accompanied by the menu for Mars 23 at the Hôtel Lutetia.
Scientific work
Chromosomes, artisans of heredity and sex (Paris, Hachette, 1928)
The Formation of Being. History of transformist ideas (Paris, Hachette, 1932) [identical reissue attested in 1948]
The Human Adventure (Paris, Fasquelle, 3 volumes, 1933-1935)
The Life of Toads (Paris, Stock, 1933)
The Problems of Heredity and Sex (Paris, Rieder, 1933)
In collaboration with Augustin Boutaric and Pierre Sergescu: Sciences. Mathematical sciences, biological sciences, physicochemical sciences, (Paris, Denoël, 1933)
The Life of Dragonflies (Paris, Stock, 1935)
Insects (Paris, Flammarion, 1936)
In collaboration with Lucien Cuénot: Introduction to genetics (Paris, Tournier and Constans, 1936)
The New Biology (Paris, Fasquelle, 1937)