To promote education and transmission, L’ÉCOLE’s second site in Paris (l'Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau) features a library and a bookshop dedicated to the world of jewelry.
Located in the heart of the Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, the library brings together some 6,000 works (ancient books, exhibition catalogues, auction catalogues, academic theses, specialized magazines and journals, etc.) accessible by appointment to readers - students, researchers and the simply curious. Three splendid rooms are reserved for the library, one of which includes a book consultation area.
The Library of L’ÉCOLE
A library dedicated to the jewelry arts
A library and a bookshop entirely dedicated to the jewelry arts
Practical Information
The Library of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (Paris - Grands Boulevards)
@ Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, 16 bis Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris
- Open Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm
- We recommend booking an appointment via the form below. For all other questions, please contact via email: bibliotheque@vancleefarpels.com
Special closure:
- From 24th December 2024 to 1st January 2025
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The librarians, Vanessa Portut Jeanne and Giulia Rocci
Vanessa Portut Jeanne
As a child, Vanessa was constantly off to her public library, where she devoured novels and comic books.
With a master’s degree in modern literature and a technical degree in the book industry, she trains future librarians, documentalists and archivists at Paris Descartes University. Warm and passionate, she created and organized the documentation center at the Centre National du Costume de Scène in Moulins-sur-Allier before joining L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts in April 2022.
Giulia Rocci
In 2016, at the age of twenty-five, Giulia Rocci moved to Paris after earning a master’s degree in literary translation; she had always dreamed
of living in the French capital. After a somewhat inconclusive experience at a high school, she enrolled at the École des Bibliothécaires et des Documentalistes on Rue d’Assas in Paris before joining L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, where she is responsible for cataloguing the thousands of works in its library.
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Above all, a place for the promotion and transmission of jewelry culture, through classes, conferences, exhibitions, and publications, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts is also, thanks to research, a place for the development and consolidation of jewelry knowledge.
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Proceedings of the Study Day “Young Researchers” – 1st edition (2019)
Supervised by Guillaume Glorieux, these proceedings brings together the contributions of young researchers in Jewelry History at the 2019 Study Day.
Proceedings of the Collège de France – 1st edition
Under the direction of Francesco Solinas, Marie-Laure Cassius-Duranton, Guillaume Glorieux