A wooden console from 1780 priced at 40 euros, sold online for 2,250 euros and resold four months later in Drouot… for 13,000 euros. A set of twenty Louis XVI seats separated into four lots, put on sale for 170 euros and sold for 6,240 euros, although it was worth between 300,000 and 500,000 euros.
In June 2022, during a sale organized on the site encheres-domaine.gouv.fr, the furniture from the Château de Grignon (Yvelines), cradle of French agronomy since its acquisition by Charles X in 1826, was literally sold off . This “monumental blunder” was revealed by Julien Lacaze, president of the Sites and Monuments association, which tracks threats to French heritage. She is now subject to sanctions from the Court of Auditors.
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