World Medals: Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie (French, 1856-1909); b. Paris FRANCE, Ernest Besnier, 1896, an Art Nouveau plated bronze plaque by A.-L.-M. Charpentier, bust right, rev. elevation of the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 60 x 44mm, 57.27g (Storer 341; Brettauer 100; Coll. R. Marx 263; BDM I, 411; cf. Hirsch e6, 925; cf. iNumis MBS 32, 1465). About extremely fine £30-£40 Provenance: Jean Elsen Auction 83 (Brussels), 12 March 2005, lot 2669. Ernest-Henri Besnier (1831-1909), b. Honfleur, dermatologist and medical director of the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris