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A student of J. J. Barre, Borrel began engraving medals in 1828. In 1831 he was appointed to the Monaco mint under Honore V and he soon began engraving official medals of Louis Philippe and the House of Orleans. He won numerous prizes at the Salons from 1832 to 1878. See Forrer i, pp. 222-25; 7, p. 100 Geffroy in Thieme-Becker 4, p. 374. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976 Valentin Maurice Borrel (1804-1882) was a French medalist who trained under Jean-Jacques Barre. His son, Alfred Barre also became a prolific medalist after his father."