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France, Monument to Adam Mickiewicz Erected in Paris, 1929, a cast bronze medal by A. Lavrillier (after A. Bourdelle), bust right in cloak, reverse winged male warrior wielding sword, 72mm (Classens 155; cf. BDW 13, 295). Extremely fine, scarce (£80-100)

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), generally regarded as Poland’s greatest poet and the leading figure of Polish romanticism in his day, settled in Paris after the November Insurrection of 1830. The monument to him in the Place de l’Alma, by Antoine Bourdelle, was erected on 28 Apr. 1929