Revolutionary period
Liberté sous la Loi - L'An III de la Liberté
Monneron Frères Négociants à Paris
Médaille de Confiance de Deux Sols à Echanger Contre des Assignats de 50 L et au dessus - 1791
Freedom under the Law - The Third Year of the Liberty
Monneron Brothers Wholesalers in Paris
Trustfully medal of Two Sols to Be exchanged For Assignats of 50 L and above - 1791
Copper round, 32 mm
Vivre libre ou mourir - 14 juillet 1790
Monneron Frères Négociants à Paris
Médaille de Confiance de Cinq Sols Remboursable en Assignats de 50 L et au dessus - L'An IV de la Liberté- 1792
Live free or die - July 14th, 1790
Monneron Brothers Wholesalers in Paris
Trustfully medal of Five Sols to Be exchanged For Assignats of 50 L and above - The Fourth Year of the Liberty - 1792
Copper round, 39 mm
Translation (by myself, be lenient) of an article extracted from the Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXème siècle, (Great universal dictionary of the 19th century, Volume 11, Monneron) :
MONNERON, family of french wholesalers, who obtained, in 1791, the right to strike a brass money of which coins was worth 10 centimes or 25 centimes and who had in motto these words : Monneron frères, négociants à Paris (Monneron brothers, wholesalers in Paris). The main members of this family are the following ones :
MONNERON the elder brother, born in 1740, died in 1804, acquired a considerable fortune in India, by occupying the offices of intendant of the Society, still increased his wealth, after his return in France, by devoting himself to successful industrial speculations, and went to sit in the States General in 1789, as deputy of Annonay. In 1791, he obtained the right to strike monnerons, became, in 1794, member of a committee of business which was in charge of watching the supply of the Republic, and received afterward the mission to operate the exchange of prisoners made by the English people in India.
His brother, Louis MONNERON, born in 1750, died in 1805, also lived a long time in East Indies, where he was elected deputy in 1799. Admitted in the Constituent Assembly in 1790, he showed himself hostile to the bill which gave to the colonists the initiative of the applicable laws in colonies and did not admit the civil emancipation of the people of color. In 1798, he was arrested as bankrupt, but released a bit further. Louis Monneron left : Opinion sur le projet d'établissement d'un acte de navigation en France (Opinion on the project of establishment of an act of navigation in France); Observations sur la législation coloniale (Observations on the colonial legislation, 1791).
Another brother of the precedents, Augustin MONNERON, born in 1760, died in Paris in 1801, took charge actively of commercial and industrial speculations in which were given themself his elder brothers, became Deputy of Paris in the Legislative Assembly, asked, in 1791, the quick organization of elementary schools and the individual punishment of the priests who refused to submit themselves to the laws and propagated the rebellion in the State, voted at the beginning of the next year against bills tending to repress the cornering of colonial produces, resigned a short time after and was replaced by Kersaint. Under the Directory, Monneron became a general manager of the Office of current accounts. He disappeared in 1798, leaving a large number of his notes in circulation, was pursued as deceitful bankrupt in front of the criminal court of the Seine and settled, thanks to, as it is said, the intervention of Barras, his friend.
Translation of an article extracted from the Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXème siècle, (Great universal dictionary of the 19th century, Volume 14, Sou) :
(...) At this time also appeared the sous called monnerons of the name of their manufacturers, the brothers Monneron, who, being based on the text of the Declaration of Human Rights: « The law has the right to forbid only the prejudicial actions to the Society, » made strike what they called a trustfully money. The National Assembly forbids in 1792 these particular issues, but there was even a long time monnerons in business.
About the family Monneron :
http://perso.club-internet.fr/jgourdol/Ardeche/07celebr/07celTex/monneron.html
http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/vso/v08/v080221.html
Lefevre Lesage et Compagnie, Négociant à Paris
B(on) P(our) 5 Sols à Echanger en Assignats de 50 L et au dessus - L'An 4 de la Liberté
Lefevre Lesage et Compagnie, Wholesaler in Paris
Good For 5 Sols to Be exchanged in Assignats(Banknotes used during the French Revolution) of 50 L and above - The Year 4 of the Freedom
Silver round, 16 mm