World Medals: Coudray, Marie-Alexander-Lucien (French, 1864-1932); b. Paris FRANCE, Agriculture, or Travaux des Champs, 1904, a bronze plaque by M.-A.-L. Coudray, peasant driving bullocks pulling a plough, being urged on by a boy, setting sun in background, rev. farmworker with scythe in a field of wheat, named (Offert par P. Couinaud, Député), edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 100 x 62mm, 85.32g (PBE 280; CGMP p.103; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.18, 33; cf. Kölner 116, 1675; cf. Elsen 91, 2183; cf. DNW 188, 827). Extremely fine; in maroon gilt-blocked case of issue £60-£80 Pierre-Joseph Couinaud (1891-1967), b. Nevers; politician and staunch Gaullist in Orne; served as a doctor in World War I and was a member of the Resistance in World War II; betrayed to the Germans in May 1944 he was imprisoned at Auschwitz; elected municipal councillor of Argentan, 1945, and served as mayor 1953-60; appointed Secretary of State for Health, 1953