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It is an extraordinary fund that was doomed to disappear. During his career, Patrick Ansar, an art historian from Hauts-de-France who died in 2015, brought together an exceptional collection of works centered on the region. To carry out his research, the man who was also curator of antiquities and works of art in the Nord department, “created his own university library in order to have his books at hand at all times”, relates his daughter, Marie Ansar-Peineau, who lives in Troussures, a municipality merged with Auneuil, in the Oise. On the death of her father, the latter inherited it, listing “more than 8,000 works and 8 m3 of archives”.