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Bronze Medal: Clémente Amitié. Paris

Date:- 1805 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Consecration/Dedication

Country of Origin:- France -

Description

Medal struck by the Lodge de la Cemente Amitié, Paris. The date of this medal is uncertain. Merzdorf supposes it to have been struck in 1806, which is probably too early. The dies are believed to be still in use. The Lodge was opened on the 8th of March,1805; it. is still working, and has a Chapter and Areopagus or Council attached. It may be proper to state that the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted or Scottish Rite are not conferred in France as in America. Many of the Lodges under the Grand Orientof France are “Chapitrale”—that is, having a Chapter connected which confers the degree of Rose Croix; others are both “ Chapitrale” and “Areopagite,” conferring the degrees up to the thirtieth. The “Grand College of Rites” has the sole power to initiateinto the thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third, and last degree of the Scottish rite. (See Calendrier Maconnique du Grand Orient de France for 1876, Page 40.)

Obverse.—The square and compasses, around which are entwined acacia branches; within, “C. A.,” in a cypher in script letters.

Reverse.—A man, naked, except for a small cloak hanging from his shoulders, walking to the left unharmed, through flames which surround him, his arms crossed upon his breast. In the right hand corner, in very small letters, “Gaynard.” In exergue, “L.-. D.’. L.’. Clemente Amitme,” in two lines.