And in February the American sports entrepreneurs George Gillet and Tom Hicks took control of Liverpool.
Mr Gillet could be described as an obsessive collector, but he was not without humour.
Other rich examples of the collaboration Hugues and Mr Gillet promoted are the illuminated collections of 20th-century poems.
Gillet said the match should not have been restarted when his team only had six players on the pitch.
But Malawi manager Allan Gillet blamed the centre referee for the incident.
Only about a dozen such works were ever undertaken, and the Gillet sale contains three of them, by Louis Mascoussis, Victor Brauner and Picasso.
Inverness had been hit by the news before kick-off that French left-back Kenny Gillet will be out of action for up to a month.
Drawn by Joachim Ferrer and handsomely bound by Georges Leroux, who died recently, it is the only copy of this work and was created especially for Mr Gillet.
The Magners League leaders had an early effort from full-back Rob Kearney ruled out by television match official Daniel Gillet and Edinburgh held firm at 3-3 after penalties from Contepomi and Godman.
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French forward David Trezeguet equalized in the 23rd minute after Bari goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet could only block Diego's shot, but the hosts went ahead again just before halftime with a penalty from Paulo Barreto, who was tripped by Italy defender Fabio Cannavaro.
Together the Gillet collection forms what the French call a cabinet neither a library nor even a portion of a library, but a refined personal selection of souvenirs and rarities, that in Mr Gillet's case was first inherited and then enhanced over more than half a century.
Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.
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