FRANCE Medal ca. 1775 The Good Daughter Prize Award. XF-AU (hairlines!)

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1775, France. Silver "The Good Daughter" Prize Award Medal by Gatteaux.

Mint Year: ca. 1775
Medallist: Gateaux (GA)
Denomination: Prize Medal - Award for a Good Daughter (during the Summer of the Good People Festival).
Condition: A pin-hit at 12 o'clock (old silver-test makr) in obverse, hairlines from a previous harsh cleaning over which a nice toning has formed, otherwise XF-AU!
Material: Silver
Weight: 15.48gm
Diameter: 33mm


Obverse: Piety standing left, head radiant, crowning a young girl and holding a second crown of roses. Lilies and ears of wheat on either side. Medallist´s initials (GA) at 8 o'clock near rim.
Legend: HIC PIETATIS - HONOS
Exergue: LA BONNE FILLE

Reverse: Wreath (with blank, uninscirbed field).



This Good People Festival was established in February 1775 by Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont. The awards were drawn by election and were for a “good daughter”, “good mother”, “good old man” and “good head of family”. In the spirit of the celebration of virtues. This festival has awarded these medals from 1775 to 1785.

Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont (1732 in Carentan-1786 in Paris), jurisconsult and lawyer, ardent defender of Protestants and opponent of religious intolerance, author of legal memoirs (notably on the Calas affair) which gave him a European reputation and the recognition of Voltaire and his wife Anne-Louise Morin-Dumesnil. Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont was also a Freemason and member of the famous Lodge of the Nine Sisters. He was the father of Jean-Baptiste Armand Elie de Beaumont (1798-1874), one of the great scientific figures in geology.

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