Barre, Jacques-Jean

3. August 1793 – 10. June 1855

: Jean-Jacques Barre

Graveur Général of the Paris Mint from 1842 to 1855.

Jacques-Jean Barre designed and engraved French medals and the Great Seal of France, as well as banknotes and postage stamps and Switzerland’s first 1- and 2-Rappen coins of 1850.

Traveljournal 1845

Paris hat fashions, the mint and onward journey, 19 July 1845
London acquaintances old and new, 22 July 1845

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: Barre, Jacques-Jean. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/names/gfa-actors-7770, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — Jacques-Jean Barre (portrait by Henri Decaisne, 1835)