World Medals: Belmondo, Paul (Algerian, 1898-1982); b. Algiers, moved to France 1920 FRANCE, L’Été [The Summer], 1965 [struck 1977], an octagonal restrike bronze medal by P. Belmondo, group of naked young people and a baby swimming in a river, tree in background, rev. two verses from the poem Le Soleil by C. Baudelaire, edge impressed 1977 bronze and cornucopia, 84mm, 330.85g (CGMP p.146; cf. iNumis Dec. 2018, 351). Obverse good very fine, reverse about very fine £50-£70 Provenance: DNW Auction M2, 11 July 2006, lot 2693 (part). Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), poet, essayist and art critic, published Le Soleil in Les Fleurs du mal in 1857