France, FRENCH REPUBLICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION, 25 YEARS, 1906, Medal, UNC

France, FRENCH REPUBLICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION, 25 YEARS, 1906 Medal, UNC, Bronze arch top plaquette, 53 X 69mm by Jules-Prosper Legastelois. EM: BRONZE. A wordless view of Dalou’s masterpiece, Le Triomphe de la Républic. The medal is signed: d’apres DALOU, on the pedestal and the medal is signed J. P. LEGASTELOIS at the lower right corner/Within a ridged border, these words at top: ASSOCIATION/ SYNDICALE PROFESSIONNELLE/ DES JOURNALISTES REPUBLICAINS/ FRANÇAIS. Below this appear the dates: 1881-1906 to the left, and below, a quill pen, against a background of several sheets of foolscap. Signed J. P. LEGASTELOIS, lower right corner. Condition is excellent. From the T.H.G Collection. Legastelois chose to depict the great Jules Dalou (1838-1902) monument, Le Triomphe de la Républic (b.1899), which is located in the Place de la Nation, Paris, as the illustration of this medal devoted to the 25th anniversary of the French Republican Journalists Association. (e. g. journalists who were not monarchists).