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France, Maréchal de Mac-Mahon, Président de la République, 1873, a bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, bust left, reverse batons, sword and ducal crown, 70mm (PBE 47; CGMP p.75; BDM I, 402; Gaz. Num. 1897, p.14, 15). Extremely fine, superb light patina, rare (£60-80)

Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon (1808-93) headed the army that crushed the Paris Comune in 1871. A monarchist, he was elected second President of the Third Republic in 1873, but resigned in 1879