French antiques fraudsters discovered responsible of Versailles chair rip-off

French antiques fraudsters discovered responsible of Versailles chair rip-off

Getty Images Bill Pallot was considered the top scholar of French 18th Century chairs Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette. Georges “Bill” Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars as well as longer suspended … Read more

The furniture fraud that hoodwinked the Palace of Versailles

The furniture fraud that hoodwinked the Palace of Versailles

BBC In the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the French antiques market. Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France’s Ancien Régime, they were stamped with the seal of Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot, a … Read more