Medal "Do what must be done" signature Gaston Monnerville Grandson of slave

Description: 92- tir74Medal in bronze from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).Struck in 1973.Beautiful copy.Engraver / Artist / Sculptor : Marcel COURBIER (1898-1976).Dimensions : 74 mm .Weight : 265 g.Metal : bronze .Mark on the edge : cornucopia + bronze + 1973 .Fast and careful shipping.The stand is not for sale.The stand is not for sale.Gaston Monnerville, born January 2, 1897 in Cayenne (Guyana) and died November 7, 1991 in Paris, is a French statesman. He was notably a member of parliament, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, President of the Council of the Republic from 1947 to 1958, then of the Senate from 1958 to 1968. Grandson of a slave, Gaston Monnerville is the son of Marc Saint-Yves Monnerville, civil servant of the colonial administration1, and Marie-Françoise Orville. On both maternal and paternal sides, the family comes from Case-Pilote, a commune in Martinique. His brother, Pierre Monnerville, also had a political career.StudiesHe attended the Cayenne high school and in 1912, on scholarship, he left Guyana and entered second grade in Toulouse, at the Pierre-de-Fermat high school. He shows himself to be a particularly brilliant student, as gifted for science as for letters. In second grade, Gaston Monnerville accumulated awards: excellence prize, first prize in mathematics, second prize in Latin version, third prize in modern history.His year in rhetoric class was also very brilliant and the results were impressive: inclusion on the honor roll, first prize in mathematics, first prize in English (first language), first prize in Spanish (second language), etc. .The brilliant student opts for letters and chooses to follow the philosophy class. He notably won the Ozenne Prize and the Honorary Prize.A student at the faculties of letters and law at the University of Toulouse, Gaston Monnerville passed both his bachelor of arts and his license in law, with congratulations from the jury. It was also with the congratulations of the jury that he was awarded a doctorate in law in 1921, after having defended a thesis on “unjust enrichment”. This was honored with a subscription from the Ministry of Public Education and won a prize the same year in the theses competition.LawyerIn 1918, Gaston Monnerville registered with the Toulouse Bar. Accepted in 1921 in the competition for secretaries of the Conference, he obtained the “Alexandre Fourtanier” gold medal which rewards one of the best secretaries. In this capacity, he delivered, at a formal back-to-school session, a remarkable speech on “Criticism and the Right of Reply”.Gaston Monnerville left Toulouse and registered with the Paris Bar in 1921. He soon joined the office of a famous lawyer and future statesman, César Campinchi (1882-1941), of whom he was, for eight years, the main collaborator. In 1923, he was accepted into the competition for secretaries of the Conference of Lawyers, at the Paris Court of Appeal. In 1927, he was elected president of the Union of Young Lawyers at the Court of Paris (UJA de Paris).Gaston Monnerville pleads several major trials. He distinguished himself in particular at the age of 34, in 1931, in the Galmot affair. Charged after the riot caused in 1928 by electoral fraud and the suspicious death of Jean Galmot, fourteen Guyanese were brought before the Nantes Assize Court. With Alexandre Fourny, Alexandre Zévaès and Henry Torres, he ensured their defense. His pleading had a considerable effect on the jurors, who decided for acquittal2.In addition to his profession as a lawyer, Gaston Monnerville collaborates as a journalist with the Radio Tour Eiffel station.Political involvement in the 1930sMember of Parliament for Guyana (1932)Following the Galmot affair, he was asked to run in Guyana, against the outgoing deputy, Eugène Lautier. He was elected by a considerable majority as a radical deputy for Guyana in 1932 and 19363.On June 21, 1933, he delivered a visionary speech at Place du Trocadéro, The Jewish Drama, which evokes the massacre of the Hereros and foresees the Shoah4.In the third and fourth governments of Camille Chautemps, he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1937 and 1938. His supervisory ministers are Marius Moutet then Théodore Steeg. On his initiative, the penal colony was abGaston Monnerville, born January 2, 1897 in Cayenne (Guyana) and died November 7, 1991 in Paris, is a French statesman. He was notably a member of parliament, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, President of the Council of the Republic from 1947 to 1958, then of the Senate from 1958 to 1968. Grandson of a slave, Gaston Monnerville is the son of Marc Saint-Yves Monnerville, civil servant of the colonial administration1, and Marie-Françoise Orville. On both maternal and paternal sides, the family comes from Case-Pilote, a commune in Martinique. His brother, Pierre Monnerville, also had a political career. A student at the faculties of letters and law at the University of Toulouse, Gaston Monnerville passed both his bachelor of arts and his license in law, with congratulations from the

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