Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. Æ Medal (58x72mm, 160.6 g, 12h). "La defense du foyer". By Emile André Boisseau. Dated 1915. Presented to Faure Paul, for the Challenge Fernand Bidault by the Ecole St. Cyr Football Association. Celtic warrior standing facing, head right, holding broken sword and sheltering kneeling woman with child; dog to right, ax, plow, and tree to left; in background to right, two thatched huts; above, HALTE LÀ!; in exergue, LA DEFENSE/ DU/ FOYER / Cartouch engraved ECOLE SAINT CYR/ CHALLENGE FERNAND BIDAULT/ FOOT-BALL ASSOCIATION/ 7E CIE; below, various arms and armor, plaque reading SI VIS PACEM/ PARA BELLUM; engraved in exergue, FAURE PAUL. EF, spotting.

Collector's note: "This beautiful (and rare!) bronze plaquette was engraved by Emile André Boisseau (1842-1923). He was pupil to Dumont and Bonnacieux at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts. Also he was awarded and made Officer of the Legion d'Honneur. Boisseau was more a sculptor than a medalist. (His art work ranges in price very commonly at $20,000/30,000). This piece called La Defense du Foyer" (Defending his Home and Family) exists also as a statue by Emile André Boisseau, and he engraved this plaquette in the same way. Bibliographic sources indicate only one plaque (this one) which was ever engraved by this artist." "