1885 souvenir French medal, visit of Queen Victoria & Albert to Paris

$20.00 CAD

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Small souvenir medal commemorating the historic visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Paris in August 1855.

On front:

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in profile

VICTORIA BRIT: REG. ALBERTUS PRINCEPS
           robineau rue st. Louis 101

 

On back

         RECEPTION ET SEJOUR EN FRANCE
DE LA REINE D’ANGLETERRE ET DU PRce ALBERT
                   PARIS AOUT 1855

 

Condition is worn.

Diameter 2.3 cm

In August 1855, Queen Victoria made a historic State Visit to Paris, the first time a British monarch had visited the French capital in over 400 years. Just 40 years after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, France and Britain had entered a military alliance against Russia in the Crimean War. The Queen's visit to Paris was to celebrate this remarkable turnaround in Anglo-French relations, but also marked a close personal friendship between Queen Victoria and the French Emperor Napoleon III.