MASCART Éleuthère Élie Nicolas 1878 - 1906 - Lot 342

MASCART Éleuthère Élie Nicolas 1878 - 1906 FRENCH REPUBLIC. Marianne's head on the right, her hair held back by a ribbon and braided with a laurel and oak wreath. DANIEL DUPUIS. R/. Caption: LE BUREAU CENTRAL MÉTÉOROLOGIQUE A E. MASCART 1878 - 1906 within a grenetis between a branch of oak and a branch of laurel. Smooth edge with cornucopia and GOLD hallmarks. Gold award medal attributed to E. MASCART 1878-1906 (53.21 g) Ø 41.27 mm Superb. Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was born in Quarouble in the Nord region of France on February 20, 1837, and died in Poissy on August 26, 1908. He was a French physicist who held the chair of general and experimental physics at the Collège de France for 36 years, directed the Bureau Central Meteorologique and set up an observation station at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Jean-Baptiste-Daniel Dupuis, known as Daniel Dupuis, was born on February 17, 1849 in Blois (Loir-et-Cher) and died on November 14, 1899 in Paris . He was a French painter, sculptor and medalist. He was the son of painter Étienne-Denis Dupuis and the brother of Pierre Dupuis, also a painter. In 1865, his father sent him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Jules Cavelier. In 1868, he was awarded the second Prix de Rome in medal engraving and fine stone. At the same time, he was accepted as a drawing teacher for the Paris schools.