Identify this French-language medal by A. J. Corbierre w/American content?
jonathanb
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Can anyone identify this French-language medal from WWI? It's signed on both sides by A. J. Corbierre, but I can't find anything on that person in google. I assume it's French, Belgian, Swiss, or Canadian... but why would the US eagle be on the reverse?
To save you from squinting, the text reads:
SOUVENONS-NOUS
DES SOLDATS MORTS
AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR
1914-1919
...which according to my rusty high school French translates to something like "Let us remember the solders who died on the field of honor"
Diameter is 50.5mm. It is edge-stamped BRONZE (without the cornucopia usually seen on Paris Mint strikings), but it looks more like brass to me.
To save you from squinting, the text reads:
SOUVENONS-NOUS
DES SOLDATS MORTS
AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR
1914-1919
...which according to my rusty high school French translates to something like "Let us remember the solders who died on the field of honor"
Diameter is 50.5mm. It is edge-stamped BRONZE (without the cornucopia usually seen on Paris Mint strikings), but it looks more like brass to me.
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I can't quite make out what the tinctures are supposed to be on the flag and I'm brain dead on IDing the medal at top.
That said, googling "corbierre medaille" gives a few more targeted hits. Found a few other medals of his and apparently he wrote a book (in French) on religious medals in 1901.
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I don't really do French but I think that is what it says.
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