Legal notice — The Unknown Masterpiece

This website is run by a real-world bookseller. Below is the information French law requires, written without unnecessary legalese.

Publisher

Tiphaine Richard, bookseller and publisher of this website, registered as a French micro-entrepreneur.

• Trade name: Le Chef-d’Œuvre Inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece)
• Address: 20 rue Édouard Delesalle, 59800 Lille, France
• SIRET: 810 817 916 00028
• Email: contact@lechefdoeuvreinconnu.com
• Phone: +33 7 71 61 83 27

Director of publication: Tiphaine Richard.

Hosting

This site is hosted on the infrastructure of OVH SAS — 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France — phone: +33 9 72 10 10 07, website: ovh.com.

For any hosting-related question (security, outage, legal request), email contact@lechefdoeuvreinconnu.com — the message will be forwarded.

Intellectual property

The texts, photographs, illustrations and editorial voice on this site are the property of Tiphaine Richard, © 2026. Any reproduction, even partial, for commercial purposes requires prior written permission.

Quoted passages, epigraphs and literary references are attributed to their authors whenever possible. If you spot a missing attribution, write to me: I will correct it.

Book photographs displayed on product pages (forthcoming) come from the Livre-Rare-Book database and remain the property of their original sellers or rightsholders.

Terms of use

This site is open to the public. You may browse it freely, return to it, share it.

A few simple principles:

• Personal use: browsing, consulting, and saving pages locally for private use is free.
• Mass scraping: if you are a respectful indexing robot (Google, ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot), welcome — see the root robots.txt. If you are a curious human wanting to reuse substantial excerpts, write to me first. I rarely say no when asked kindly.
• Contact: if you notice an error, omission or broken link, the email address above is the right door.

These terms may evolve. The date at the bottom of this page shows the last revision.