It was one of the last great antique dealers on the Place de Paris.
One of those professional dinosaurs that won't exist any more.
Of his generation, Didier Aaron, Bernard Steinitz, Michel Segoura, Jean Gismondi, Jacques Kugel, Michel Meyer, Philippe Kraemer, are no more.
He will remain as one of the best, the most knowledgeable, the most atypical of his time.
Unclassifiable by his knowledge and the unconventional way in which Jean-Marie Rossi practiced his profession.
Far, very far from the simple trader, selling 18th century marquetry chests of drawers not always authentic and with invented pedigrees, like some of his colleagues with whom he had had memorable rants ...
He had just turned 91, on November 18, and passed away on Sunday afternoon
"peacefully, with all his head still"
declared those around him.
After a busy life.
His gallery in Place Beauvau where he moved in 1999 - where Doucet, one of the great
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