Cathédrales (1926) where the "master alchemist" speculates that Cœur was a successful alchemist or associated with alchemists and that he was a silversmith in the literal sense, i.e. that he could transmute base metals into small quantities of silver. He is the titular protagonist of Le Grand Cœur, a 2012 novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin who was also born in Bourges. Publications Jean-Pierre Clément, Jacques Cœur et Charles VII (Paris, 1866) Hendrik de Man, Jacques Cœur, argentier du Roy (Jacques Cœur, der konigliche kaufmann Paris, 1950) (Tardy, 1951) Notes External links French bankers 1395 births 1456 deaths French merchants Captains General of the Church 15th-century French businesspeople Medieval French merchants