I. The historical development of medallic art up to the nineteenth century

II. Conditions for French medallic art in the nineteenth century

1. The new diversity of subjects and forms

2. Design and production of a medal

III. Factors encouraging the renewal of medallic art

1. The Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving

2. The importance of the exhibition system

3. Museums as sponsors of medallic art

4. The medal in contemporary journals and books

5. The Paris Mint and other medal issuers

6. The founding of private medal societies

 IV. The Société des Amis de la Médaille française (1899-1920)

1. History – from foundation to dissolution

2. Catalogue of the medals and plaquettes issued

V. The influence of French medallic art on other countries at the turn of the century

VI. The development of medallic art from 1900 to the Second World War

VII. Important medallists – biographies and a selection of their works

VIII. Supplementary biographies

IX. Bibliographical sources for the artists

X. Bibliographical sources for the medals

Albert Bartholomé - René Baudichon - Lucien Bazor - Raoul Bénard - Alfred Borrel - Louis Bottée - Henri Bouchard - François-Rupert Carabin - Michel Cazin - Jules-Clément Chaplain - Alexandre Charpentier - Lucien Coudray - Henry Cros - Paul-Marcel Dammann - Jean Dampt - Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis - Pierre-Victor Dautel - Fernand David - Louis Dejean - Jules Desbois - Henri Dropsy - Henri Dubois - Charles Dufresne - Georges Dupré - Paul-Léonard Durousseau - Étienne Exbrayat - Robert Frangeš-Mihanović - Emmanuel Fremiet - Georges Gardet - Émile Gaudissard - Paul Grandhomme - Geneviève Granger - Henri Greber - René Grégoire - Aleth Guzman - Paul Jouve - Abel Lafleur -

Raoul Lamourdedieu - André Lavrillier - Alphonse Lechevrel - Hippolyte Lefebvre - Camille Lefèvre - Jules-Prosper Legastelois - Pierre Lenoir - Ferdinand Levillain - Georges Loiseau-Bailly - Albert Marque - Léon-Claude Mascaux - Firmin-Marcelin Michelet - Alexandre Morlon - Paul Niclausse - Ernest Nivet - Henry Nocq - Auguste Patey - Victor Peter - Charles Pillet - Pierre-Marie Poisson - Albert Pommier - Georges-Henri Prud’homme - Paul Richer - Pierre Roche - Paul Roger-Bloche - Jules Édouard Roiné - François Roques - Oscar Roty - René de Saint-Marceaux - Victor Ségoffin - Corneille Theunissen - Domenico Trentacoste - Pierre Turin - Frédéric Vernon - Jean Vernon - Ovide Yencesse