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MÉRY DE VIC
FRÉMY, Claude (?): France, 1622, Bronze, 62 mm
Obv: Bust of Méry de Vic MERICVS
DE. VIC FRANCIAE PROCANCELLARIVS 1622 (Méry de Vic, Vice Chancellor of
France, 1622)
Rev: Justice with sword and balance NEC PRECE NEC
PRECIO (Neither by Requests Nor by Bribery)
Very Rare
Ref: In Jones Vol. 2, 120/81, there is a large uniface medal of Méry de Vic.
Under this entry (p.121) Jones states "There is a smaller version of
this portrait with a reverse showing Justice with the legend NEC PRECE NEC
PRECIO, dated 1622, which is probably also by Frémy (Mazerolle II, no
755)". However, on p.290, Jones suggests that a medal of Méry de Vic
may have been executed by the "S" medallist.
Méry de Vic was a member of the Most Christian King's
Privy Council, Vicomte d'Ermenonville, and Baron de Fiennes. In 1587 he
became an advisor to Louis XIII. He was appointed President of the
Parliament of Toulouse in 1597. In 1600 he was sent as ambassador to the
Swiss, and in 1621 he became Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice, to
which the device on the reverse of the medal refers. He
died in 1622 and was buried in Ermenonville, the same city where Jean
Jacques Rousseau lived in his later years and where he is also buried.
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