France. LES ANIMAUX MALADES DE LA PESTE. By Charles-Louis Virion. Uniface Bronze 59mm. Obv: A donkey and other animlas before a lion. Cat. Gen. vol. 3 400/C. Extremely fine. $90 Louis Virion, French sculptor, medallist and ceramist, was born at Ajaccio (Corsica) in 1865. He studied under Aub? and Charles Gautier. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Fran?ais and won a third class medal in 1895. He won a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition in 1900. Virion died in 1946.