This is apparently a royalist medal depicting France's sorrow at the
departure of Louis XVIII before the arrival of Napoleon from Elba.
It's pretty straight forward propaganda actually. A somewhat slutty woman,
in the midst of a bad hair day, named Discord, steps off the boat, kicks
over 'Public Felicity' and probably immediately shouted "Where's
the vino?"
On the other hand (the reverse actually) we have Mom, impeccably dressed,
in the process of carefully protecting the fleur-de-lys from the ruffian
off the boat. Mom is named Gallia and as such we realize that she is the
true 'France' in this picture.
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