Summary

Medal La Ligurie Reunie a la France, 'Liguria Reunited with France', Issued by France, 1805
Artist: Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet and Bertrand Andrieu
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Laureate head of Napoleon facing right, around, NAPOLEON EMPEREUR; on neck truncation in small lettering, ANDRIEU F.

Reverse Description

A full length figure of Napoleon, his head laureated, and in the imperial Roman costume, receives a female figure emblematic of the Ligurian Republic; on ground behind the emperor, an eagle with expanded wings; in the background on the right, a ship's prow; in exergue, LA LIGURIE / REUNIE A LA FRANCE / MDCCCV.; at left and right edges above the exergue line in small lettering, BRENET. F. DENON . D .

Edge Description

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Significance

"The people of Genoa having imbibed the principles of democratical liberty, and tumults having arisen between them and the adherents of the old government, and they not being able to stem the torrent, sent deputies to Bonaparte at Montebello, where a convention was concluded on the 6th June, 1805, by which the government of the Genoese republic acknowledged the sovereignty to reside in the body of the citizens of its territory. The legislative power was entrusted to two representative councils. Municipalities were established in the communes and districts, on the model of France, and a committee was charged with framing a constitution, and all the laws of the Republic, with a reserve of doing nothing contrary to the Catholic religion. The provisional government was to extinguish faction, grant a general amnesty, and unite the people in rallying round the public liberty. France agreed to give her protection, and even the assistance of its armies, to facilitate if necessary the execution of these articles, and maintain the integrity of the territory of the Republic. This new modelled affair was named, "The Ligurian Republic." It is probable the prow of the ship alludes to the maritime port of Leghorn, it being the chief harbour of the republic. " Laskey p.91-92

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