Abd El-Kader Release 1852 Napoleon Iii French Historical Token / Medal
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ABD EL-KADER RELEASE 1852 NAPOLEON III FRENCH HISTORICAL TOKEN / MEDAL. He was later awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour for saving the lives of 12,000 Christians in Syria. Finally, on October 16, 1852, the emir and his followers were released by the Prince-President. Obverse : bust Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Reverse : "rentrée de S.A.I. (Son Altesse Impériale) Louis Napoléon à Paris 16 oct. 1852" Diameter : 23 mm or 0,9 inch. Metal : brass On October 16, 1852, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte took advantage of a trip to Touraine to go to the Château d'Amboise, where he announced his release to Emir Abdelkader. Abd el-Kader secured his release and retired to Damascus, where he died in 1883, remaining true to his word not to take up arms again. He was later awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour for saving the lives of 12,000 Christians in Syria. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, the first president of the Second French Republic, came to power following the 1848 revolution while Abdelkader was already imprisoned. He was determined to break with several political decrees of the previous regime, and the emir's cause was among them. Finally, on October 16, 1852, the emir and his followers were released by the Prince-President. Abdelkader remained in France for another two months. He visited Paris twice, where he met his liberator again; the first time, at the Château de Saint-Cloud, where the emir voluntarily swore never again to incite unrest in Algeria; the second time, on December 2, at the Tuileries Palace, where Louis-Napoleon was proclaimed emperor under the name Napoleon III. Two weeks later, Abdelkader and his entourage were about to leave the country for Bursa (now in Turkey), when the emir saw his future biographer Alexandre Bellemare and asked him to refute, in writing and speech, the conviction that many French people still held of his responsibility in the massacre of prisoners on April 24, 1846.
