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Token - Philippe Hecquet
1714 year| Brass | 6.82 g | 28 mm |
| Location | France |
|---|---|
| King | Louis XIV (1643-1715) |
| Type | Utility items › Counter tokens |
| Year | 1714 |
| Composition | Brass |
| Weight | 6.82 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Updated | 2024-11-13 |
| Numista | N#124744 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 97% |
Reverse
Snake crawling towards a temple located on a rock
Script: Latin
Lettering:
MONSTRAT ITER.
1714
Edge
Plain
Comment
He was born in Abbeville on February 11, 1661, into a family that had produced many men of merit, such as his elder brother Antoine, who was dean of the collegiate church of Saint-Vulfran (15th and 16th centuries). He studied medicine in Abbeville, then in Paris. He became a doctor in 1684 in Reims. He returned to Abbeville for 2 years, then left for the capital to perfect his knowledge.He retired for a time to Port-Royal des champs, where he became the nuns' physician. There, he submitted to the monastery's rigorous regimen, devoting himself to fasting and abstinence.
Back in Paris, he was hastily appointed doctor-regent, with responsibility for teaching medical subjects.
He wrote a great deal, and in the course of this intensive work ruined his own health, retiring to the Carmelites in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques (Paris). There, he spent the last 10 years of his life under the most austere practices. He ate very little and drank only water, saying that cooks were the cause of all illness. He regarded tobacco as pernicious. For him, bloodletting remained the ideal, and water the only drink.
He also attracted a great deal of satire. It is said that LESAGE in his Gil Blas portrays him as the "sandrago" doctor, and in the same work it is impossible not to recognize him as "Hocquetos".
He died in Paris on April 11, 1737 at the age of 75, in the Carmelite convent of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, and was buried in the church at the bottom of the nave.
