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France, 1913. France. Le Petit Parisien, a plated bronze award medal by E.-V. Exbrayat for A. Lahure, standing figure with torch, reverse running figure with map of Europe, 49mm (BDM VII, 284; cf. BDW 5, 80). Small reverse edge nick at 6 o’clock, very fine; in red box of issue by Ch. Vaillet, rue des Balkans, Paris, this somewhat distressed (£30-40)

Le Petit Parisien, a newspaper founded in 1875