Mosaic Plate, Portrait Of President Sadi Carnot (1837-1894).

Very beautiful portrait of President Sadi Carnot made on a mosaic plate. This portrait is remarkable for its realism and rarity. It was made at the very end of the 19th century. The plate has two iron crosspieces attached to the back by four screws and therefore easily removable. Marie François Sadi Carnot, more often called Sadi Carnot, was a French statesman (1837-1894) born August 11, 1837 in Limoges (Haute Vienne) and died June 25, 1894 in Lyon. He was President of the Republic from December 3, 1887 until his death. Involved in politics from 1871 as a moderate republican, he was deputy for Côte-d'Or, prefect for Seine-Inférieure, under-secretary of state then minister of public works and minister of finance. He is also Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies and Chairman of its Budget Committee. At the end of 1887, following the resignation of President Jules Grévy due to the decorations scandal, the National Assembly put him in the lead in the first round of the early presidential election with 36% of the vote. in front of Jules Ferry, whose candidacy divides the Republican parliamentarians. In the second round, after the latter's withdrawal, Sadi Carnot was elected against General Saussier with 74% of the vote. President Carnot was quickly confronted with a strong questioning of republican institutions with the rise of anti-parliamentarianism, the electoral successes of Boulangism and anarchist attacks, while ministerial instability continued and the Panama scandal broke. His mandate is also marked by the centenary of the French Revolution and the Universal Exhibition in Paris. In foreign policy, he promotes the signing of the Franco-Russian alliance with Emperor Alexander III. A few months before the end of his presidency, when laws against anarchism were passed and he refused pardon to several figures of this movement (Ravachol, Vaillant, Henry), Sadi Carnot was fatally stabbed by the Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio during an official trip to Lyon, at the age of 56. After a state funeral at Notre-Dame de Paris, he was buried in the Panthéon. Shipping costs contact us.