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Brass Medal: Fabre Palaprat. Paris 1820

Date:- 1820 - Classification:- Person; Anniversary

Country of Origin:- France -

Description

The arms on the reverse are those of Palaprat, according to Merzdorf. He was a physician of distinction, and filled the position of Grand Master K.T. from November 4, 1804, to February 18, 1838, when he died. Bernard Raymond was the name assumed by Fabre Palaprat, as Grand Master of Templars, on the revival or introduction of that Order into French Masonry. The Templar cypher on the reverse is formed from the Templar cross. The medal was no doubt struck at Paris.

Obverse —Naked bust to time left of Palaprat, the Grand Master of the Masonic Order of Knights Templar in France, under which. in two curving lines, very small, “Coquardon. Ch Du T. 1820” (Chevalier du Temple). Legend, in Temple cypher, “*Bernardus = Raymundos D. G. E. FF. SS. S. H. E. P. E. P. ~“ and below the bust, completing the circle in the same cypher, “ Fabre = Palaprat.”

Reverse.—A shield, bearing quarterly 1 and 4 argent, a cross patee gules: 2 and 3 the arms of Palaprat, azure, a bend sinister or, over all a pale gules, on which in fess point, the Cross of the Legion of Honour on a chief ermine, a serpent entwined on a staff. Over the shield a crown and mitre combined; on the crown, between the points of the mitre, which bend together at thetop, is a mound, from which rises a spear-point wih two pennons, “VD “ on the left one, and “ SA “ on the right. (Veut Dieu Saint Amour. God wills Holy love). From the crown hangs an ermine fillet or stole, the ends which appear on each side of the shield having Teutonic crosses Legend, in the same cypher, on the right of the shield, “ Pro Deo,” and on the left, “ Et Patria” (For God and Country). Below, in Roman letters, “.~ AN. 686=1804 EL

The reverse is engraved in M., Plate 10, Fig. 37.

Properties

35 mm. Brass