In the eighth year of the Republic,
government projected the elevation of a column in the Place
Vendome, and another in the Place de la Paix. The
first stones of these columns were laid by the minister and by
the chiefs of the the departments. The medal annexed was struck
to be placed under the column of the department in the Place
Vendome. It represents, on one side, the heads of the three
Consuls, with the
Bonaparte, 1st Consul. Cambaceres, 2d Consul. Le Brun, 3d Consul.
UNDERNEATH.
Constitution of the French Republic, 8th Year.
On the reverse, the inscription round the medal is
The Department of the Seine to its Brave.
IN THE MIDDLE.
Column of the Department,
Lucien Bonaparte being Minister of the Interior.
N. Th. B. Frochot, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, laid the first Stone, the 25 Messidor 8th Year, Eleven Years after the 14th of July, 1789.