Summary

Medal Alliance avec la Saxe 'Alliance with Saxony', issued by France & Prussia, 1806.
Artist: Bertrand Andrieu
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Conjoined heads of Napoleon, laureate, and Charlemagne, crowned; at left, NAPOLEON . EMP.; at right, CHARLEMAGNE. EMP.; below, AN M.DCCC.VI.; on head truncation, ANDREIU. F.; below in small lettering, DENON DIR.

Reverse Description

Conjoined heads of Fredrick August and Vitikind, crowned; at left, VITIKIND. R.S.; at right, FREDERIC. AUG. R.S.; below, AN M.DCCC.VI.; on head truncation, ANDREIU. F.; below in small lettering, DENON DIR.

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

"Napoleon here identifies himself with Charlemagne, and Frederick Augustus is made to assimilate with Wittekind, the celebrated chief of the Saxons, who for thirty years contended against all the power of Charlemagne; and who, after his final submission to that conqueror, still retained large territorial possessions, together with the ducal title.

On the alliance of the Elector of Saxony with Napoleon, he gained, in addition to the royal title of King, the title of Duke of Warsaw, also large domains taken from Prussia and Germany, which were added to his former states." Laskey p.132

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