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A student of Tiolier Barre exhibited first at the Salon of 1819 with considerable success. He worked at the mint under Puymaurin and was Graveur general des monnaies from 1843 to his death. Barre engraved both coins and copper plates for paper money. See Forrer i, pp. 127-31 ; 7, p. 51 ; Fred. Alvin in Thieme-Becker 2, pp. 528-29. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976