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FRANCE: Charles X, 1824-1830, AE medal, 1826, EF

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FRANCE: Charles X, 1824-1830, AE medal, 1826, EF
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FRANCE: Charles X, 1824-1830, AE medal, 1826, Coll-510, 49mm bronze medal by Alexis Joseph Depaulis and Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin for the Voyage of the Corvette Astrolabe; CHARLES X ROI DE FRANCE ET DE NAV. around bare head of monarch left, signatures DEPAULIS F. et DEPUYMAURIN D. below // VOYAGE DE DÉCOUVERTES DE LA CORVETTE L'ASTROLABE around center inscriptions reading S.A.R. / Mgr. LE DAUPHIN / AMIRAL DE FRANCE / Mr. LE Cte. CHABROL DE CROUZOL / PAIR DE FRANCE / MINISTRE DE LA MARINE / Mr. DUMONT D’URVILLE / CAPITAINE DE FREGATE / COMt L’EXPEDITION, with date below, minor rim bumps, EF. The Corvette Astrolabe was the re-named La Coquille, and now commanded by Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), who had been second in command to Duperry. Much of the expedition was to the coasts of New Zealand, however the expedition did find the remains of La Pérouse’s expedition which had been lost on the Veni l’Oro reef in 1788. Between 1837 d’Urville commanded the Astrolabe and Zéle on an expedition to the Antarctic and Pacific Islands. In May, 1842, together with his wife and child, he was killed in a Railway accident near Paris.