Medal Albert Robida Dock Docking Station Aérocabs Aerostats Balloons Joly 1978

Description

130- shot 83
Bronze medal from the Monnaie de Paris (Cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted in 1978.
Beautiful copy.
Engraver / Artist / Sculptor
: Raymond Joly.
Dimensions
: 64 mm by 49 mm.
Weight
: 141 g.
Metal
: bronze.
Hallmark on the edge
: cornucopia + bronze + 1978.
Quick and neat delivery.
The stand is not for sale.
Support is not for sale
Albert Robida, born in Compiègne on May 14, 1848 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 11, 1926, is a French illustrator, caricaturist, engraver, journalist and novelist.
His son is the architect Camille Robida. Son of a carpenter, he studied to become a notary, but in the boredom of such studies, he devoted himself to caricature. In 1866, he drew in the Journal Amusing then in various magazines. In 1879 he imagines a character raised by monkeys, Saturnin Farandoul. In 1880, with the publisher George Decaux, he founded his own review, La Caricature, which he edited for twelve years and in which Caran d'Ache, Louis Morin, Ferdinand Bac, Job, Maurice Radiguet1 made their debut. It illustrates tourist guides, popular historical works, literary classics: Villon, Rabelais, Cervantès, Swift, Shakespeare, Les Hundred Contes drolatiques by Honoré de Balzac, the Thousand and One Nights. He also works in a lighter register with a history of brothels. His fame disappeared shortly after the First World War.
Albert Robida has been rediscovered thanks to his anticipation trilogy:
The Twentieth Century (1883);
War in the Twentieth Century [archive] (1887);
The twentieth century. Electric life (1890) 2.
In Electric Life, he imagines the telephonoscope, a flat wall-mounted screen that broadcasts the latest information at all hours of the day and night, the latest plays, lessons and teleconferences. Aircraft are also well established as a means of personal transport and there is even mention of an "electro-pneumatic train-tube" reminiscent of the hyperloop of Elon Musk. The story takes place in 1953.
In addition to his visionary qualities, his work L'H
His son is the architect Camille Robida. Son of a carpenter, he studied to become a notary, but in the boredom of such studies, he devoted himself to caricature. In 1866, he drew in the Journal Amusing then in various magazines. In 1879 he imagines a character raised by monkeys, Saturnin Farandoul. In 1880, with the publisher George Decaux, he founded his own review, La Caricature, which he edited for twelve years and in which Caran d'Ache, Louis Morin, Ferdinand Bac, Job, Maurice Radiguet1 made their debut. It illustrates tourist guides, popular historical works, literary classics: Villon, Rabelais, Cervantès, Swift, Shakespeare, Les Hundred Contes drolatiques by Honoré de Balzac, the Thousand and One Nights. He also works in a lighter register with a history of brothels. His fame disappe