time. He was appointed general engraver of the HôteldesMonnaies in Brussels and produced the first Belgian coins. He was a founding member of the Royal
medical school, the École de Chirurgie (1775), and a new mint, the HôteldesMonnaies (1768), all on the Left Bank. Under Louis XV, the city expanded westward
November 1833, a new museum of coins and medals was opened inside the HôteldesMonnaies, the 18th-century French mint on the Left Bank. Interest in the Middle