World Medals: Bourgeois, Louis-Maximilien (French, 1839-1901); b. Paris FRANCE, Centenaire de l'installation de la Chambre des Députés au Palais-Bourbon [Centenary of the Installation of the Chambre des Députés at the Palais-Bourbon], 1898, a bronze award medal by L.-M. Bourgeois, troops on parade at the inauguration ceremony, rev. view of the Palais, medallions at left, tablet in foreground, un-named, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 72mm, 169.92g (BDM I, 240; cf. CGB Feb. 2024, 460; cf. DNW 48, 829). Good very fine £40-£50 Provenance: DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1485 (part). The inaugural legislative session at the Palais Bourbon was held on 21 January 1798