Jacques-Jean Bars

Biography

The order of its first names varies according to the publications: Jean-Jacques Bars in Numismatique and Jacques-Jean Barre in philately.

Bar between as a workman engraver about 1810 with the Monnaie of Paris. It succeeds the general engraver Nicolas-Pierre Tollier after his death in 1842.

Under the Second Republic, it is in charge with the drawing and the engraving of the tickets of 500 and 1000 francs of the type 1842. It creates in 1848 the matrix for new the Grand seal of the Republic and that of the National Assembly. He is also the draftsman and engraver of the first postage stamps of France, with the effigy of Cérès and Napoleon III ( Présidence and Empire ), which are printed in the mint by Anatole Hulot until in 1876.

The Second Republic having struck currencies little, except the ecu 5 francs taken again with the Standard Dupre, it must await the election in December 1848 like chair Republic of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, future Napoleon III, to have corners to engrave. It realizes, for the republican short period before the Coup d'etat of the December 2nd 1851, the engraving of the coins of 5 francs and 1 franc with the effigy of Louis-Napoleon naked head. Then, the empire proclaimed in 1852, it engraves the same coins but this time with the legend “Worsens French” and “Napoleon III Emperor”.

Patient, it resigned of his functions in 1855.

His/her son, Desired-Albert Barre (May 6th, 1818 - December 29th, 1878) succeeds to him this post of general engraver. It is with him that one owes in particular the engraving of the currencies and the stamps of the Second Empire with the effigy of Napoleon III with laurée head. He breaks however with Hulot in 1866.

The oldest son of Jacques-Jean Bars, Jean-Auguste Barre (September 25th, 1811 - 1896), sculptor of talent, and appointed portraitist of the imperial family, succeeds his younger brother as a general engraver in 1878 pennies the III {{E}} République but occupies this function only one year.

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