Armand Carrel Medal – Chamber of Peers – Assassination of Marshal Ney – Signed by Émile Rogat
In copper
Weight: 42.2 g
Diameter: 41,5 mm
Obverse:
Head in profile to the left of the journalist Armand Carrel .
Signature:
E. ROGAT
1835 D’APRÈS P.J. DAVID. (Pierre-Jean David (known as David D’Anger) was friends with Armand Carrel)
Reverse:
Words spoken by Armand Carrel in 1834 before the Chamber of Peers, to whom he reproaches the “assassination” of Marshal Ney, in 12 lines:
IF AMONG
THE MEMBERS
OF THIS ROOM THERE IS ONE
WHO IS HURT BY MY WORDS
LET HIM REPORT ME AND CALL ME
AT THIS BAR
I WILL APPEAR THERE, AND I WILL BE PROUD
TO BE THE FIRST MAN
FROM THE GENERATION OF 1830
WHO WILL COME TO PROTEST HERE
AGAINST AN ABOMINABLE
ASSASSINATION
–
Edge:
Smooth without punch
