Summary

Medal Colonne Departmentale, 'Departmental Column', Issued by France,1801
Artist: Jaques Edouard Gatteaux
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Conjoined busts of the three Consuls in profile facing right; around above, BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL; aroond below, CAMBACERES SECD. CONSL. LE BRUN TROISE. CONSL. ; in exergue, CONSTITUTION / DE LA REPUB. FRANC. / AN VIII.

Reverse Description

Legend in nine lines, COLONNE / DEPARTEMENTALE / LUCIEN BONAPARTE / ETANT MINISTRE DE LTNTERIEUR / N. TH. B. FROCHOT PREFET DU / DEPT. DE LA SEINE, A POSE LA PRE. / PIERRE LE XXV MESSIDOR AN VIII / XI ANS APRES LE XIV JUILLET / M DCCL XXXIX.; around above, GUERRE DE LA LIBERTE; around below, LE DEPARTEMENT DE LA SEINE A SES BRAVES

Edge Description

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Significance

"This medal commemorates the event of Lucien Bonaparte, Prime Minister of the Interior, and N. TH. B. Frochot, prefect of the Department of the Seine, on their laying the foundation-stone of a departmental column sacred to liberty and war, and dedicated to the army." Laskey p. 38

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