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Association des anciens élèves de Grignon - Auguste Bella

Association des anciens élèves de Grignon - Auguste Bella - obverseAssociation des anciens élèves de Grignon - Auguste Bella - reverse

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Features

Location France
Period Second Republic (1848-1852)
Emperor Napoleon III (Napoléon III) (1852-1870)
Type Commemorative medals › Company, institution and association medals
Year 1880
Composition Copper
Weight 21.7 g
Diameter 36 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued 29 August 1852
Number
N#
554691

Obverse

Bust on the right of Augustin Bella, first director of the royal agronomic institution at Grignon.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AUGUSTE BELLA – FONDATr. DE GRIGNON
BORREL

Unabridged legend: Fondateur de Grignon.

Engraver: Alfred Borrel

Reverse

In a crown of vines, wheat and other plants, 5-line legend.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ASSOCIATION
DES
ANCIENS ÉLÈVES
DE GRIGNON
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29 AOÛT 1852
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Edge

(fr) Poinçon Corne d'abondance de la Monnaie de Paris et inscription en creux "CUIVRE"

Lettering: CUIVRE

Association des anciens élèves de Grignon - Auguste Bella -  obverse

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Comments

This medal is also available in silver or gold (very rare). Another alumni medal, issued after 1889, mentions "reconnue d'utilité publique". Today, the Grignon alumni association is called "AgroParisTech Alumni".

In 1826, Charles X bought the Château de Grignon and founded the Institut Royale Agronomique de Grignon to train agricultural engineers, who were welcomed in 1828 by the first director, Auguste Bella. The name of the school changed with the regimes: Ecole Régionale d'Agriculture under the Second Republic, Ecole Impériale d'Agriculture under the Second Empire, Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture under the Third Republic, then Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon (ENSAG) from 1960. The latter merged with the Institut National Agronomique in Paris to become the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G). A final merger took place in 2007 with ENGREF in Nancy and ENSIA in Massy to become the school known today as AgroParisTech.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1880) 

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