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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Old World Coins, post: 4211382, member: 110607&quot;]I picked up this AN 6 Centime raw and had it graded later.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was minted during the French Revolution in which the people overthrew the Monarchy and gave way for Napoleon to Seize the thrown and later declare himself emperor all while appealing to the people of saving them from themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079367[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079368[/ATTACH] </p><p>I picked up this coin to accent a home display of the original decree Napoléon made to the people on 19 Brumaire after he conducted his Coup d&#039;état.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079372[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079373[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1079375[/ATTACH] </p><p>The Translation goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>19 Brumaire, Eleven pm</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon my return in Paris, I found division in all authorities, and a consensus established on the sole truth that the Constitution was half destroyed and could not save freedom.</p><p><br /></p><p>All parties came before me and disclosed their purpose, revealed their secret, and asked for my support. I refused to be an assigned man.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Council of Elders called upon me, I answered their call. A general restoration plan had been prepared by men who the nation is used to seeing as defenders of freedom, of propriety. This plan called for a calm and free review, untainted from any influence and fear of repercussions. The Council of Elders has made the transference of the Legislature to St. Cloud, I was charged with the organization of the force needed for its independence. I thought owed it to my fellow citizens, to the soldiers perishing in our armies, to the national glory acquired at the cost of their lives, I accept the command (<i>or leadership</i>).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Councils congregate in St. Cloud; the republican troops ensure our safety on the outside. But assassins create terror on the inside; several Deputies from the Council of Five Hundred, armed with daggers and firearms, are disseminating death threats.</p><p><br /></p><p>The plans that were to be developed are being consolidated, the majority is disorganized, the most intrepid orators are baffled, and any wise council seems useless.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am bringing my indignation and my pain to the Council of the Elders; I am asking the Council to ensure the execution of its generous purpose; I am presenting the Council with the woes of the country, for which they were created. They unite with me with new testimonies of their continuous will.</p><p><br /></p><p>I present myself to the Council of the Five Hundred, alone, unarmed, bareheaded, as I had once been received and applauded by the Elders; I was there to remind the majority of its ambitions and to reassure it on its power.</p><p><br /></p><p>The daggers threatening the deputies are immediately raised on their liberator; twenty assassins rush towards me and seek out my chest: (<i>or . not sure</i>) the grenadiers of the Legislature that I had left at the doors of the room rush in and stand between the assassins and myself, and I am one of those brave grenadiers. (Thame) is stabbed with a dagger and his clothed are pierced. They take me away.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time, screams of the outlaws against the defender are heard. They were the fierce cries of the assassins, against the force destined to contain them.</p><p><br /></p><p>They quickly gather around the&nbsp; president, with threats in their mouths, arms in hand; they order him to accuse the outlaw; I am warned; I give the order to wrench him from their fury, and six grenadiers of the Legislature charge into the room and have it evacuated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The intimidated troublemakers are dispersed and pull away. The majority, cleared from their blows, walk freely and peacefully into the room of its sessions, hears out the proposals that had been made for the public <i>(can’t read the word it might be debate),</i> deliberates, and prepares the salutary resolution that is to become the new and provisional law of the Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>People of France, you will undoubtedly recognize, by this conduct, the zeal of a soldier of freedom, of a citizen devoted to the Republic. The conservative, protective, liberal ideas have claimed their rights by dispersing the dissidents that oppress the Councils, dissidents that, after having become the most odious of men, have not ceased to be the most irresponsible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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