Historical and
Commemorative Medals
Collection of Benjamin Weiss
LOUIS XV : PEACE OF GENEVA DUVIVIER, Jean: France, 1738, Bronze, 41 mm In the eighteenth century, Geneva had developed a
system of government whereby its inhabitants were divided into three
classes: the citizens by birth, who were entitled to citizenship and who
were eligible to all offices; the bourgeois, who were able to attend the
great council but who could not be members of the small, executive council
nor hold public office; and the householders or commoners , who had no
rights to citizenship whatsoever. At a certain point dissatisfaction
towards this form of government emerged, the bourgeois and citizens
revolted, and disorder broke out. This medal commemorates the quelling of
such disorders and the restoration of harmony in Geneva. (from Thompson)
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