14 Brasilien: Rosenorden - Großkreuzsatz, verliehen an den französischen Premierminister René Goblet (1886-1887).
The Grand Cross Gold and Enamel. On a magnificent original sash made of the finest moiré silk with a large sewn ribbon rosette.
Particularly high-quality Brazilian goldsmithing in the finest jeweller's quality. The roses between the cross arm tips in the finest pink enamel painting. The Brazilian imperial crown is particularly finely chiselled.
The breast star with gold applications, the star plate in silver-gilt. The appliqués applied separately and riveted on the back. Between the white enamelled star points, the separately applied roses in the finest enamel painting. The Brazilian imperial crown is particularly sculpted, finely chased and underlaid with green enamel. On pin.
Both pieces in the beautiful original case made of green velvet with the gold-embossed cipher of Emperor Pedro II (1831-1889).
The Order of the Rose was founded as a Brazilian civil and military order of merit on 17 October 1829 by Emperor Pedro I of Brazil on the occasion of his marriage to Amélie von Leuchtenberg. The order could also be awarded to foreigners. The emperor was the Grand Master.
René Goblet (26 November 1828 – 13 September 1905) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1886 to 1887.
After studying law, he co-founded the liberal journal Le Progrès de la Somme during the Second French Empire. Goblet was first elected to the National Assembly for the Somme in July 1871, where he represented the radical socialists, who were considered to be on the far left at the time. He was mayor of Amiens from 1876 to 1879. Although he missed out on re-entering the Chamber of Deputies in 1876, he became a member of the National Assembly in 1877, representing Amiens. After taking on a minor government role in 1879, he became Minister of the Interior in Charles de Saulces de Freycinet's cabinet in 1882. In the Brisson and Freycinet governments, he served as Minister of Public Instruction, Arts and Religion from 1885 to 1886. In this role, he emphasised his position as a defender of the government's educational mandate. His independence and straightforwardness alienated him from many in his party, and for the rest of his political life, starting with Léon Gambetta, he was repeatedly in temporary conflict with his political partners. Prime Minister and the Schnäbele Affair After the fall of the Freycinet government, Goblet himself became Prime Minister on 11 December 1886, taking over the Ministries of the Interior and Religion in addition. However, his government was unpopular from the outset, and it was difficult to find a foreign minister at all. This office was finally given to Émile Flourens.
The Schnäbele Affair occurred during Prime Minister Goblet's short term in office. On 20 April 1887, the French customs official (or possibly stationmaster) Wilhelm Schnäbele, French Guillaume Schnæbelé (born 1831 in Eckbolsheim near Strasbourg; died 5 December 1900 in Nancy), was arrested by German officials during a business meeting on German soil and imprisoned in Metz. The reason given was suspicion of espionage. The French Minister of War, Georges Ernest Boulanger, used the incident to demand retribution against Germany for the defeat it had suffered in the Franco-Prussian War. This led to a crisis in Franco-German relations that was only resolved after Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered Schnäbele's release on 30 April 1887. In this matter, Goblet proved to be a procrastinator who did not make a decision for several days, leaving it to Foreign Minister Flourens, who was in favour of peace, to deal with War Minister Boulanger. Even though Goblet eventually sided with Flourens, his weakness in the face of the strong opinion of the War Minister posed a national danger. After the defeat in the budget vote, Goblet resigned on 30 May 1887. Later political life and retirement from politics One year later (1888), Goblet returned to government for the last time, taking over the Foreign Ministry from Gustave Flourens in the cabinet of the radical Charles Floquet. In the 1889 election to the National Assembly, he was defeated by a candidate of the Boulanger Party. After a brief period in the Senate from 1891 to 1893, he again became a member of the National Assembly. Together with Édouard Locroy, Ferdinand Sarrien and Paul Peytral, he published a republican programme in the newspaper Petite Republique Francaise. However, he lost again in the 1898 election to the National Assembly and thereafter largely withdrew from politics.
An extremely rare Grand Cross set of Brazilian manufacture from the second half of the mid-19th century.
This fine quality and workmanship, in the original case and with such interesting provenance, is hard to find.