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FRANCE, Second Republic. 1848-1852. PB Medal (71mm, 64.68 g, 6h). The Proposed Assasination of General Nicolas Changarnier and André Dupin. Dated November 1850. CONSEIL DES VINGT-SIX, A L'UNANIMITE/ CHANGARNIER/ ET DUPIN/ CONDAMNES/ A MORT, two skulls and crossed bones at center / SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE L'ORDRE ET DE L'HUMANITÉ, NOVEMBRE/ 1850/ RUE DES SAUSSAIES/ FAUBOURG/ ST HONORÉ. Collignon, 2e Republique 33. Some chasing near skulls, traces of double strike on edge. Near EF.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.
The proposed assassination commemorated on this medal is mentioned in Chapter V of Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: "Police Commissioner Yon, who had been assigned to the National Assembly, and was charged with the guardianship of its safety, reported to the Permanent Committee upon the testimony of one Alais, that a Section of the Decembrists had decided on the murder of General Changarnier and of Dupin, the President of the National Assembly, and had already settled upon the men to execute the decree. One can imagine the fright of Mr. Dupin."
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.
The proposed assassination commemorated on this medal is mentioned in Chapter V of Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: "Police Commissioner Yon, who had been assigned to the National Assembly, and was charged with the guardianship of its safety, reported to the Permanent Committee upon the testimony of one Alais, that a Section of the Decembrists had decided on the murder of General Changarnier and of Dupin, the President of the National Assembly, and had already settled upon the men to execute the decree. One can imagine the fright of Mr. Dupin."