The monument celebrating the honour of the French armies in the campaign of 1805, was erected in the place de carrousel, opposite the palace of the Thuilleries. The general effect recals to mind the Arch of Septimius Severus, the ruins of which are still to be seen in the Campo Vacciao at Rome.

This remarkably splendid arch, the ornaments of which are sculptured with infinite research, is decorated with columns of red marble, which support over their architrave eight statues of white marble, representing a soldier of each class. Six bas reliefs in marble, of which the subjects are the principal events of the campaign of 1805. The whole is surmounted by a triumphal car, drawn by four horses, led by the two victories. These horses are themselves valuable trophies. They decorated the front of the Temple of the Sun at Corinth, and were brought to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Nero; to Venice, by the Doge Dandolo; and to Paris, by Napoleon. The events of 1814 have despoiled the building of the car and the bas reliefs.

The medal, which will preserve the remembrance of this edifice in all its splendour, represents on one side the head of Napoleon, Emperor and King. On the reverse, a geometrical elevation of the edifice, and the following

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To the Armies.