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Great Britain - 1816

Paix de Paris de 1814 et 1815

Obverse:

Similar to No. 776.
Laureate head of the Prince Regent, left.

Legend:

GEORGE PRINCE REGENT MDXXXXVI

Size:

41 mm.

Reverse:

Peace standing holding two victor's wreaths on a plinth inscribed TREATIES / OF PARIS. A trophy of arms behind her.

Legend:

ARMIS ET CONSILIIS (By force and diplomacy).

Exergue:

XXX . MAY MDCCCXIV / XX NOVEMBER MDCCCXV

Mudie:

No. XXIX.
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TREATIES OF PARIS.
THE subjects commemorated by this medal are so similar to those upon which we have expatiated in the two preceding ones, that it would be mere repetition to enlarge upon them again. When Buonaparte escaped from Elba, and reinstated himself in his former power, he found Eng1and the same invincible obstacle to his ambition, as she had proved herself throughout his whole career. The immediate results of that transaction will more appropriately be traced in some of the subsequent medals, (Nos. 35, 36, 37, and 38.) and to them we refer the reader.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL.
OBVERSE.—Bust of the Prince Regent.
REVERSE.—The hope of Europe, that the long and devastating war might be crowned with peace, is here allegorically represented by a figure of Peace, with wings at rest, reclining on an anchor amidst trophies of war conquered from France, among which is the significant emblem of the annihilated power of Buonaparte—a broken Eagle. In her hand is a serpent, the type of Wisdom, and suitable to that direction of affairs which, in union with physical power, obtained the result of peace. On a pedestal supporting the figure is inscribed "TREATIES OF PARIS." On the exergue "30TH MAY, 1814; 20TH NOVEMBER, 1815." Above is tbe inscription, "ARMIS ET CONSILIIS," an inscription well appropriated to the power and the counsels which achieved the great result of peace.

Bramsen:

Bramsen - 1784
Paix de Paris de 1814 et 1815. (G. Mills et Brenet.)

GEORGE PRINCE REGENT MDCCCXVI. Bust à col nu, lauré et à gauche.

ARMIS ET CONSILIIS. La Paix sur un piédestal s'appuyant à une ancre et entourée de trophées. Par terre une aigle française brisée.

Sur le piédestal: TREATIES OF PARIS.

Exergue: XXX . MAY MDCCCXIV XX. NOVEMBER MDCCCXV.

Médaille, 41 mm. Mudie XXIX.

d'Essling:

d'Essling - 1489
Paix de Paris (Mills et Brenet).

Buste à g. du Prince régent.

ARMIS ET CONSILIIS. Victoire deb. tenant couronnes. A ses pieds amas d'armes.

41 mm. Arg. ( B. 1784 Mudie XXIX).

BHM:

AR, AE 41 by G. Mills and N. G. A. Brenet.
AR R; AE N.
AM; HC.
Fi. 5214; M. 29.

A further Peace Treaty was signed with France on 20th November 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. By this treaty France was confined to her old frontiers held in 1790 and deprived of the additions granted to her in 1814. A levy of 700,000,000 francs was imposed upon France as a contribution towards the allied costs of the war; the amount was to be paid within five years.

One of Mudie's National Medals (see No. 1057) issued in 1820. Examples of this medal are believed to have been struck in gold but no specimen has been met with. See also note to No. 802.

from British Historical Medals, Volume 1, p. 216