Summary

Medal le Tombeau de Desaix, 'Tomb of Desaix in Mount St. Bernard', Issued by France, 1805
Artist: Jean Pierre Droz and Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Laureate head right; around, NAPOLEON EMPEREUR.; below in small letters, DENON DIR / DROZ FECIT

Reverse Description

Within a wreath of laurel and cypress or yew, the legend LE XXV . PRAIRIAL / AN XIII . XIV . IUIN MDCCCV . / NAPOLEON POSE LA IERE. / PIERRE DU TOMBEAU / DE DESAIX AU MONT / ST. BERNARD.

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

"General Desaix, to whose memory these medals were ordered to be struck by the French government, was killed in the moment of victory, at the celebrated battle of Marengo, by a musket ball which struck him in the head. " Laskey p. 90

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