A rare medal of the Polish Emigration Committee in Paris.
This is the first emigration medal minted to commemorate the November Uprising, specifically the lost battle for Warsaw on September 6-7, 1831. The medal was minted later that year by the French-Polish Committee, chaired by General Marie Joseph de la Fayette, who was a great friend of the Polish cause and General Tadeusz Kosciuszko personally. The medal was a brick to help soldiers fleeing Poland. Its distribution was handled not only by the French-Polish Committee, but also by the Polish National Committee established on December 8, 1831, after the chairmanship of Joachim Lelewel.
Signed Rouvet.
Obverse: Eagle carrying in its talons a pennant with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the battlefield, city walls in the background, legend above:
FATA ASPERA VINCES, in section 7 SEPTEMBRE 1831 (the date of the capitulation of Warsaw), at the border signature ROUVET
Reverse: pedestal with funeral urn, on it engraved names of generals and officers of the Uprising who fought in the defense of Warsaw: SOWIŃSKI / KICKI / KAMIŃSKI / ZYMIRSKI / MYCIELSKI / SKARSZEWSKI, on the sides a branch and a scythe, above:
Bronze, diameter 46 mm, weight 37.6 g.
