The son of a rich businessman, Durand acquired a wide variety of objects, both locally on his travels (especially in central Italy) and also by buying items from existing private collections in France (he acquired several antiquities from…
It should be spelled 'Edme-Antoine Durand', since he died in 1835 and the spelling 'Edmé' only appeared around 1850. Againstdisinformation (talk) 04:12, 11 September 2015 (UTC) [reply ]