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France, Centenary of the Installation of the Chambre des Députés au Palais-Bourbon, 1898, a bronze award medal by L.M. Bourgeois, troops at the inauguration ceremony, reverse view of the Palais, tablet in foreground named (Rose, Député), 72mm (PBE –; BDM I, 240). Extremely fine and nicely patinated, rare; in original gilt-blocked maroon fitted case (£40-60)