After the battle of Austerlitz, the Emperor Napoleon took up his abode at Schoenbrunn and never appeared in the capital during the daytime. The only act of authority he exercised, was ordering a Te Deum as thanksgiving for the peace he had just concluded at Presburg. The medal which celebrates, at once, the frankness and moderation of the conqueror, transmits at the same time, to posterity, the image of the church of St. Stephen, one of the most sumptuous specimens of the richness and boldness of the achitecture of the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries. On one side, is the figure of Napoleon with the inscription in the field,

Napoleon, Emperor and King.

On the reverse, thc inscription on the field is,

Act of thanksgiving for peace.

DATE,

Ordered at Vienna by the Emperor Napoleon,
the 28th December, 1805.