EXTREMELY RARE ART NOUVEAU FRANCE, MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
HONOR MEDAL FOR ACTS OF COURAGE AND DEVOTION

GOLD GRADE (HIGHEST OF 5 GRADES)
NAMED/DATED “PÉRIGNON ERNEST ABEL 1899”

DESIGNED BY OSCAR ROTY, ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MEDALISTS OF THE ART NOUVEAU ERA.

OBVERSE: WREATHED ALLEGORICAL CLASSICAL FEMALE HEAD REPRESENTING THE FRENCH REPUBLIC FACING LEFT.

REVERSE: DRAPED SEATED ALLEGORICAL WINGED GENIUS LOOKING BEHIND AND HOLDING STYLUS AND TABLET WHILE SEATED ON STONE BLOCK WITH HANGING WREATHS; LEGEND, DATE AND DEDICATION ABOVE.

MEDAL FOR ACTS OF COURAGE AND DEVOTION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1820. IT IS AWARDED TO RECOGNIZE ACTS OF COURAGE AND DEVOTION WHERE THE RECIPIENT PUT THEIR OWN LIFE AT RISK TRYING TO SAVE THE LIVES OTHERS.

THE GOLD GRADE IS AWARDED AS AN OUTSTANDING TESTIMONY TO A PERSON HAVING DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF OR HERSELF THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL ACTS TOWARDS HIS OR HER FELLOW CITIZENS.

THE NAMED RECIPIENT OF THIS MEDAL, PÉRIGNON ERNEST-ABEL, IS MENTIONED IN THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. LAWS AND DECREES - 1903/08/30 (YEAR 35, N ° 234), WHERE HE IS NOTED AS HAVING RECEIVED THIS MEDAL ALREADY, AND HAS FURTHER DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AGAIN AT SAINT-MANDÉ, VAL-DE-MARNE , FRANCE – 1903.

MEDAL CONTAINS 15 GRAMS .917 GOLD (0.4423 OZ AGW)
27.5mm IN DIAMETER

DESIGNER OSCAR ROTY
1897 (1895)

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