Museums - Bibliothèques Jacques Doucet

Jacques Doucet (1853–1929) was a celebrated fashion designer who over the course of his life accumulated a rich collection of art works and created two reference libraries: The Bibliothéque d'Art et d'Archéologie and a first-rate literary library devoted to French literature from the symbolist movement to the present. A friend and patron of numerous writers, Doucet also acquired, on Breton's advice, many objects from Africa and the Far East. At the Drouot auction of the Breton atelier in April of 2003, Breton's daughter bought back her father's famous New Ireland uli figure for 1.24 million euros, and donated it to the Bibliothéque Littéraire Jacques Doucet.