Jacques Doucet (sailor)

Jacques DoucetStéphane Gachet JO d'été. Tous les médaillés français de 1896 à nos jours, ed. Talent Sport, Paris 2023, p. 22, says "19 February 1853 in Paris – 30 October 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine", but these are the dates and places for the fashion designer of the same name, Jacques Doucet (fashion designer). was a French sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

He was the crew member of the French boat Favorite 1, which won two silver medals in the races of the 2 to 3 ton class. He also participated in the Open class, but did not finish the race.

A memoir by the French painter Charles Picart Le Doux suggests that Doucet did not survive World War I.Picart Le Doux, Charles (1953). Monelle de Montmartre, preface by Pierre Mac Orlan, illustrations by the author, Paris, 1953, p. 42: "Many, like dear Doucet, had disappeared, were dead."

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