The handwritten school notebook ends on October 17.
This is the register of visitors, in one of the reading rooms of the mythical Jacques-Doucet literary library (BLDC), place du Panthéon (Paris V), which houses originals by Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé and the surrealists, an unimaginable windfall: approximately 170,000 manuscripts in total, more than 40,000 printed books, 5,000 works of art, writers' furniture.
The great couturier Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) brought together this gigantic collection of Baudelaire in Aragon, bequeathed to the University of Paris, which has continued to grow ever since.
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