MINES DE CHARBON DE MARLES (62) - BRONZE PLAQUE FIRMIN RAINBEAUX (*) for the fiftieth anniversary of his management - his high-relief bust by Hippolyte LEFEBVRE (**) - reverse: mining landscape with factory and slag heap. In front, a miner in uniform and a woman dressed in antique style hold a bouquet of flowers under the dates 1861-1911. Exergue cartouche: "Le Conseil d'administration et le personnel de la Compagnie des Mines de Marles à Mr FIRMIN RAINBEAUX Administrateur directeur général - 50e anniversaire". 81 x 62 mm - 211 gr - SUP, rare, in its original wood / velvet box. (*) Firmin RAINBEAUX: born December 8, 1834 in Mons, died July 13, 1916 in Paris. Son of the mine's founder, he took over its management on his father's death. Industry executive (Mines de Marles, Cie des chemins de fer du nord, chemin de fer de l'Indochine et du Yunnan, etc.). A friend of Napoleon III, he often stayed at the Château de Compiègne. On June 6, 1867, he saved Russian Emperor Alexander II, who was visiting Paris for the Universal Exhibition, when a Polish émigré shot the Russian sovereign. Firmin Rainbeaux, escorting his carriage, reared his horse to parry the shot, which hit the horse in the chest. Jean Baptiste Carpeaux produced a painting and bust of F. Rainbeaux, which can be seen in the Château de Compiègne. (**) Hippolyte Jules LEFEBVRE, born in Lille on February 4, 1863, died in Arcueil on September 22, 1935. Sculptor and medalist, École des Beaux Arts, Lille and Paris. Grand prix de Rome 1892, medals at the Paris 1900 exhibition - a street named after him in Lille

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