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Four prizes in the gift of the French Academy, so named from their founder, Baron de Montyon (1733-1820), and awarded annually for improvements in medicine and surgery; improvements tending to health in some mechanical process; acts of disinterested goodness; literary works conducive to morality; the last two are usually divided among several recipients.