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Member of a celebrated Geneva family of medalists, Bovy studied in Geneva and in Paris under Pradier. In order to compete for the French coinage, Bovy became a French citizen in 1835. He worked in both France and Switzerland, engraving the Swiss coinage in 1850 and 1873. See Forrer i, pp. 243-47; 7, p. 106. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976