Abstract
The art to collect crossed the centuries, the private collections are in particular at the origin of our cultural heritage. Nevertheless, in spite of the importance of the role of the collection, it still remains a set of things badly identified by the right. As together of things created by the will of the Man, the collection is not defined, and only ones certain collections are supervised by some measures.Besides, the private collections are fragile sets, they are a matter of the private property of their collector who is free to have it as he wishes it. The major risk of these sets lives in their dispersal and in the infringement on their integrity. Often worried of protecting the integrity and the coherence of his set, the collector must be able to benefit from protective legal tools adapted to the collection.Finally, what a collection? Means what this notion of collection and which right(s) can seize with it? Is our right able of protecting effectively a meeting of things as the private collection? In other words, the problem consists in answering the following question: what legal apprehension for the private collections?Therefore, the objective of the thesis is to try to identify a legal qualification of the collection to adapt better its protection. Indeed, the search gives for purpose to define the theoretical and legal foundations susceptible to be adapted to the work of the collector, to try to end in a regime of effective protection.