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Born in Nancy, Saint-Urbain learned die engraving in Germany (he was in Munich in 1671) and Italy. He was appointed director of the papal mint at Bologna in 1673 and was chief engraver to the papal mint in Rome from 1683 to 1703, when he returned to Nancy. He became engraver to the mint there in 1707 and executed most of the coinage for Duke Leopold of Lorraine as well as a series of medals of the Dukes and Duchesses of Lorraine. See Thieme-Becker 29, p. 329; Forrer 5, pp. 305-13. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976