World Medals, France, Third Republic, Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (1851-1925), statesman, thin silver plaquette, made by the electrotype process, by L.-E. Mouchon, 1897, 57 x 40mm.; together with a group of silver medals (9), by O. Roty (3), E. Dropsy, H. Dubois, C. J. M. de Georges, H. Naude, L. Bottée and L. Alloy, on religion, family, agriculture, etc, extremely fine or nearly so (10)
Ex Baldwin's vault
Following the First World War, Bourgeois was elected the first President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1920 and he went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace the same year.