102977 | FRANCE. Vercors bronze Medal.

102977   | FRANCE. Vercors bronze Medal. Issued 1975 for liberation of the Vercors in 1944 (58mm, 114.63 g, 12h). By Raymond Delamarre at the Paris mint.

 

Emaciated man facing slightly right, extending his arms upward in an act of distress; barbed wire fence in the foreground, camp towers in the background // LE JOUR / OU LES PEUPLES / AURONT COMPRIS QUI VOUS ETIEZ / ILS MORDRONT LA TERRE / DE CHAGRIN ET DE REMORDS / ILS L’ARROSERONT / DE LEURS LARMES / ET ILS VOUS ELEVERONT DES TEMPLES / VERCORS (the day when mankind will have understood who you were, they will bite the earth with grief and remorse, they will water it with their tears, and they will build temples for you all) in ten lines. Edge: 1975 «cornucopia» BRONZE.

 

As Made. Pale bronze-red surfaces, with some antiquing. Includes original box of issue.

 

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