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Francois Boucher (art historian)

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Nationality
  
France

Books
  
20,000 Years of Fashion

Died
  
23 November 1966, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

François Leon Louis Boucher (1885–1966) was a French museum curator and writer.

Boucher was born in Paris and became curator at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. He founded the Union française des arts du costume (UFAC) that later merged with the costume museum Musée de la mode et du textile of the Louvre under the guidance of his assistant Yvonne Deslandres.

Works

  • Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours, 1963-5
  • 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment, together with Yvonne Deslandres, 1966
  • Boucher died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

    References

    Francois Boucher (art historian) Wikipedia