

France, Napoleon I Bonaparte. Bronze medal commemorating the transfer of the body of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne from Saint Denis Cathedral to the Invalides, 22 September 1800, Auguste, Bramsen 71, Julius 848, Essling 858, Bronze 50 mm, weight 64,40 g., Condition aUNC, beautiful brown patina with luster, small edge damage
Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, (born Sept. 11, 1611, Sedan, Fr.—died July 27, 1675, Sasbach, Baden-Baden), French military leader, marshal of France (from 1643), one of the greatest military commanders during the reign of Louis XIV. Beginning his military career in the Thirty Years’ War (from 1625), he subsequently commanded the royal armies in the civil war of the Fronde (1648–53), in the French invasion of the Spanish Netherlands (1667), and in the third Dutch War (begun in 1672). Napoleon later deemed him history’s greatest military leader. source: britannica.com