JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS AND QUEEN

ANDRIEU, Bertrand: France, 1805, Lead-filled Bronze, 68 mm
Obv: Bust of Josephine (r)    JOSEPHINE IMP. ET REINE.
Rev: Uniface
Signed:  ANDRIEU. F.
Lead-filled bronze cliché, part of boxed set
Ref: Forrer I, p53; Bramsen 476; Julius 1506; TN. 7.13;  Europese Penningen # 1705

Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Consort of Napoleon I, was empress of the French from 1804 to 1809. She married Napoleon in 1796 but her extravagance and inability to bear him a son caused Napoleon to obtain an annulment of their marriage in 1809.  Her daughter Hortense was the mother of  Napoleon III.

LINK  to  Napoleonic Medals (Vern McCrea)

LINK  to Medallic History of Napoleonic Medals (from Fortiter)

LINK to Napoleonic Medals (from Blackwatch)

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