World Medals: Andrieu, Bertrand (French, 1761-1822); b. Bordeaux, and Denon, Dominique-Vivant (French, 1747-1825); b. Chalons-sur-Saône FRANCE, Ouverture du canal de l’Ourcq [Opening of the Canal de l’Ourcq], 1809, a copper medal by B. Andrieu for D.-V. Denon, laureate bust of Napoléon to right, rev. robed figure of Paris seated on her ship, holding a cornucopia, receiving on her right arm waters gushing from an urn held by a naked female, a second naked female bathes her feet with water from her own urn, 40mm, 39.13g (Bramsen 868; CGMP p.71; BDM I, 54; Slg. Julius 2122; cf. Elsen 164, 2413; cf. Varesi e10, 428; cf. Noonans 311, 690). About extremely fine £60-£80 Provenance: Bt H.D. Rauch September 2003. The canal, part of the Paris waterway network, was begun in 1805 and completed in 1813. On 15 August 1809 the partial inauguration of the canal was celebrated when water from the River Ourcq flowed into the Bassin de la Villette in Paris