1867, France, 200th anniversary reunion of Lille with France, bronze medal.

France, Napoleon III., Reunion de la Ville de Lille a la France, 1867AD.,
Médaille de bronze (24 mm / 4,15 g),
Obv.: NAPOLEON III - EMPEREUR , laureate head of Napoleon III left.
Rev.: FÊTE / COMMEMORATIVE / DE LA RÉUNION / DE LA VILLE DE LILLE / A LA FRANCE / 1867 / HADIN - A PARIS .
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En 1667, en huit jours (20-27 août), la ville est prise par les armées françaises menées par Vauban simultanément avec Douai. Son rattachement au royaume est officialisé le 2 mai 1668, par le traité d’Aix-la-Chapelle. La même année, Vauban commence à fortifier la ville et en est nommé gouverneur. En 1672, D’Artagnan est nommé gouverneur de la ville.
En 1708, la citadelle capitule devant le duc de Marlborough au terme de plus de 3 mois de combats lors de la guerre de Succession d'Espagne, après la bataille d'Audenarde et la défaite française de Wattignies. La ville reste aux mains de la coalition européenne jusqu'au traité d'Utrecht de 1713.

Commemorating the 200th anniversary. Flanders and Lille passed in and out of French control during the European wars.
In 1667, Louis XIV of France (the Sun-King) successfully laid siege to Lille, resulting in it becoming French in 1668 under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, provoking discontent among the citizens of the prosperous city. A number of important public works undertaken between 1667 and 1670, such as the Citadel (erected by Vauban), or the creation of the quartiers of Saint-André and la Madeleine, enabled the King to gradually gain the confidence of his Lille subjects, some of whom continued to feel Flemish, though they had always spoken the Latin Picard language.
During five years, from 1708 to 1713, the city was occupied by the Dutch, during the War of the Spanish Succession. Throughout the 18th century, Lille remained profoundly Catholic, which explains why the city did not really take part in the French Revolution, though there were riots and the destruction of churches.