sentences:  Rascas was born and died in Aix-en-Provence.Henri IV recognized his value, and placed him in charge of the royal collection of medals and antiquities kept at Fontainebleau, which formed one of the nuclei of the royal Cabinet des Médailles, now a department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.Rascas de Bagarris, as he is known, augmented the royal collection from his own.