François Leon Louis Boucher (26 November 1885 – 23 November 1966) was a French museum curator and writer.

Biography

Boucher was born in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

on 26 November 1885. He became curator at the

Musée Carnavalet The Musée Carnavalet () in Paris is dedicated to the History of Paris, history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, ...

, 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 The Musée de la mode et du textile (Museum of Fashion and Textiles) was a museum located in the Louvre Palace at, 107, rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It is now a department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. W ...

of the Louvre under the guidance of his assistant Yvonne Deslandres.Library of Congress
entry for Boucher, François, 1885–1966 Boucher died in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...

on 23 November 1966, at the age of 80.

Works

* ''Tableau de la France par les écrivains illustres'', 1948 * ''Histoire du Costume en Occident de l’antiquité à nos jours'', 1963-5 * ''

20,000 Years of Fashion ''20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment'' is a dictionary of western fashion from ancient times up to the 1960s, edited by Francois Boucher and his longtime assistant Yvonne Deslandres. The book is widely cited ...

: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment'', (with Yvonne Deslandres), 1966

References

1885 births 1966 deaths Curators from Paris French art historians {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub