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WORLD ART MEDALS France, Léon Bourgeois, 1897, a cast bronze medal by L.-E. Mouchon, bust right, reverse legend in 12 lines, 102mm (BDM IV, 173). A cast of exceptional quality, extremely fine and most attractively patinated, rare (£60-80)

Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (1851-1925), politician, served as Prime Minister of France, 1895-6. An ardent promoter of the League of Nations, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920