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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1891, 28 October 1913, Page 9

M. Jacques Doucct, tho Pc ris dressmaker, Wiioao sale of furniture and pictures was ono of the most sensational, even in these days of sensational snle.OiM just made a magnificent sift to the University of Paris. Ho had for many years past callectcd books, as well as furniture and pictures. His library of upwards of 100,000 volumes on art and archaeology will eventually become the property of tho University of Facia, which will houso It in a new building to bo erected in tho Latin Quarter, and to ho called tho Instituto of Fine Arts, M. Dnucet's library includes uniquo collections of works, for instance, on dress of tlio J7th century, .011 decorativo art, and an unparalleled cohcction of 25,000 nrt-snln catalogues, from tho ißtb century downwards.