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A goldsmith, medalist and coin engraver, Le Blanc won the Rome Prize in 1704 and studied in Italy for several years. From 1715 to his death he worked in Paris at the Monnaie des Medailles du Roi. He became a member of the Paris Academy in 1718. See Forrer i, pp. 3, p. 355; 7, p. 84; Thieme-Becker 8, p. 90. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976