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Centenaire d'Auguste Bella et demi centenaire de Grignon

Centenaire d'Auguste Bella et demi centenaire de Grignon - obverseCentenaire d'Auguste Bella et demi centenaire de Grignon - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Commemorative medals
Year 1876
Composition Silver (.950)
Weight 24.4 g
Diameter 37 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued 1878
Number
N#
554872

Commemorative issue

Auguste Bella centenary and half-centenary of GrignonAutomatically translated

Obverse

Right bust of Augustin Bella, first director of the royal agronomic institution at Grignon.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: AUGUSTE BELLA – FONDATr. DE GRIGNON

Unabridged legend: Fondateur de Grignon.

Engraver: Alfred Borrel

Reverse

Legend in 7 lines within a laurel wreath.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CENTENAIRE
D'AUGUSTE BELLA
DEMI CENTENAIRE
DE LA FONDATION
DE GRIGNON
10 JUIN
1878

Edge

Hallmark bee + "SILVERAutomatically translated

Lettering: ARGENT

Centenaire d'Auguste Bella et demi centenaire de Grignon -  obverse

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Comments

This medal was issued to :

- commemorate the half-centenary of the Ecole de Grignon (1826-1876), which has been training agricultural engineers since 1826. The school continues today under the name AgroParisTech.

- To commemorate the centenary of Auguste Bella (1777-1856), career military officer, Chevalier de l'Empire, and founder of the École d'agriculture de Grignon, as well as director until 1850.

This medal also exists in bronze, and a similar one was issued for the school's centenary in 1926.

The Château de Grignon was purchased in 1826 by Charles X, who 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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