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The Monnaie de Paris (Paris
''Building the financial façade: Jacques-Denis Antoine's Hôtel de la Monnaie, the Parisian mint, 1765–1775''
Monnaie de Paris
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The Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint
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) is a government-owned institution responsible for producing France's coins
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. Founded in AD 864 with the Edict of Pistres
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, it is the world's oldest continuously running minting institution.
In 1973, the mint relocated its primary production to a facility in Pessac
Pessac (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it. Pessac is also home to ...
, and today the original facility in Paris
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, while still operational, functions primarily as a museum and is home to a collection of many ancient coins.
Monnaie de Paris acquired its autonomy and was granted legal personality by law no. 2006-1666.
Building in Paris
A Neoclassical edifice, the Hôtel de la Monnaie was designed by Jacques-Denis Antoine and built from 1767–1775 on theLeft Bank
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of the Seine. The Monnaie was the first major civic monument undertaken by Antoine, yet shows a high level of ingenuity on the part of the architect. Today it is considered a key example of French Neoclassicism in pre-Revolutionary Paris. The building is typified by its heavy external rustication and severe decorative treatment. It boasts one of the longest façade
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s on the Seine; its appearance has been likened to the Italian palazzo
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tradition. The building, which housed mint workshops, administrative rooms, and residential quarters, wraps around a large interior courtyard
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. It remains open to the public and includes a numismatics
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Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...
museum, located within what was once the main foundry
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.
Development
The Monnaie de Paris employs 500 people (in 2010) on two sites: the Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris (55% of the workforce) and the monetary establishment in Pessac, in Gironde (45%). In 2019, turnover amounted to 134 million euros for a workforce of 489 employees. Following a 5-year renovation project known as Metalmetamorphose, the museum at the Monnaie de Paris – known as the Musée du Conti (11 Conti Museum) – was reopened on 30 September 2017.See also
*List of museums in Paris
There are around 130 museums in Paris, France, within city limits. This list also includes suburban museums within the "Grand Paris" area, such as the Air and Space Museum.
The sixteen museums of the City of Paris are annotated with "VP", as well ...
*Napoleonic medal
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is not precisely known since the official records of Napoleon's reign, includin ...
*Philippe Danfrie
Philippe Danfrie the elder (about 1532 in Cornouaille in Brittany - 1606 in Paris), was a designer and maker of mathematical instruments in metal and paper, as well as a type-cutter, engraver, minter of coins and medals, publisher and author. Much ...
– Superintendent of the Mint in the late 16th century.
*Pierre Marie François Ogé
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Biography
He was the son of the sculptor of the same name and received his first lessons from his father. On his father' ...
Bust of Jacques Denis Antoine
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References
Notes Sources''Building the financial façade: Jacques-Denis Antoine's Hôtel de la Monnaie, the Parisian mint, 1765–1775''
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