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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8172782, member: 20201&quot;]Well, Since we are touring France and talking about restrikes and questioning dates.</p><p>This may be fitting.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1833 July 28th Napoleon the Great France Medal</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427925[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1427926[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Statue of Napoleon made by the sculptor Charles Emile Seurre is a bronze statue of 4 meters high and weighing nearly 5 tons. It sits today facing the entrance to the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides above the gate of the soldiers&#039; church.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427928[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Placed initially at the top of the Vendôme column, it was inaugurated on July 28, 1833 in the presence of Louis-Philippe1.</p><p>Napoleon III decided in 1863 to replace the statue of the Vendome column by an imperial napoleon draped in the antique style. The statue of Seurre is then moved to the Courbevoie roundabout (La Défense roundabout)</p><p>In 1870 during the siege of Paris, the statue immersed in the Seine near the bridge of Neuilly to prevent the Prussian army seizes or degrades. Several versions are advanced by historians:</p><p>an involuntary immersion, the transport barge having capsized,</p><p>a voluntary immersion to secure the monument decided by Étienne Arago,</p><p>an act of vandalism perpetrated by anti-Bonapartists.</p><p>After a stay of 4 months at the bottom of the water, the statue is recovered and placed in The Deposit of Marbles of the State.</p><p>It was not until 1911 that General Niox, governor of the Invalides had the statue placed in its current location.</p><p>The statue underwent a complete restoration between July 2014 and March 2015.</p><p><b>I do not think this is an old medal.</b></p><p>NAPOLEON / LE GRAND / LA FRANCE / REGENEREE</p><p>on the reverse translates to:</p><p>&quot;Napoleon The Great France Regenerated&quot; which makes this a jeton or medal probably signifying the recent restoration of this statue in 2015.</p><p>The obverse was probably a reissue of a design of earlier medals by</p><p>Joseph François Domard (sculptor/medallist 1792-1858)</p><p><br /></p><p>FRANCE</p><p>Bronze 1833 Medal</p><p>Re-installation of Napoleon´s Statue to the column in the Place Vendôme</p><p>25 mm</p><p>obverse: Within wreath: A NAPOLEON LE GRAND LA FRANCE REGENEREE</p><p>reverse: (Statue of Napoleon) 28 JT. 1833 SEURRE.I. DOMARD.F.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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