Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Banknotes

France, Centenary of the Era of Romanticism, 1927, a bronze medal by R. Grégoire, lady and page-boy in neo-Gothic setting, reverse weeping willow at the edge of Lac Bourget, monument containing names of literary artists underneath its branches, 54mm (CGMP p.196); Centenary of the Death of François-Réné de Chateaubriand, 1948, a bronze medal by Geneviève Granger, bust left, reverse Château Combourg, 68mm (CGMP p.853). [2]. Both extremely fine (£35-45)

François-Réné, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), one of the earliest exponents of French Romanticism, grew up at the Château Combourg, a medieval Breton castle