Monnaie de Paris Tourist Token - Biarritz Le rocher de la Vierge

Reverse

On the periphery the word France written in eight languages. France on the upper and lower sides of the hexagon with the year on the right and left. In the center, the building of the Monnaie de Paris with 6 stars above and below.

Lettering:
צרפת ~ फ्रांस ~ FRANCIA ~ ФРАНЦИЯ ~ FRANKREICH ~ 法国 ~ فرنسا ~ フランス ~
FRANCE FRANCE
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2008 MONNAIE DE PARIS 2008
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FRANCE FRANCE

Edge

Reeded

Comment

In the 15th century, the rock, called Cucurlon rock, was a peninsula. It is the emperor Napoleon III who drilled the rock for the construction of a harbor-refuge and a dike. A viaduct of 76 meters is built to connect the rock to the coast. In 1865, a few crosses and a statue of the Virgin were erected there. The statue was made by the Ducel et Fils workshops in Bordeaux and purchased at the Franco-Spanish exhibition in Bayonne. The Virgin was blessed on June 11, 1865, by the priest of Biarritz, Father Casaux. In 1887 a metallic footbridge, wrongly attributed to the Eiffel workshops, replaced an old wooden footbridge dating from 1863. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocher_de_la_Vierge