Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)

This sum will go to the 101 "networking projects" selected in 2020, in each department. The funds were raised thanks to the Heritage Lottery, the Mission Patrimoine national collection and sponsorship from FDJ, the Monnaie de Paris (thanks to the sale of Commemorative Coins) and Christie's.

The French television host is leaving his apartment in the ninth arrondissement and selling all his furniture, which might surprise you by its eclecticism that mixes the 18th century and contemporary design.

A prominent figure in the defense of French heritage, the star television personality is leaving his home on rue La Rochefoucauld in the 9th arrondissement, where Victor Hugo once lived, and selling its contents at auction.

Since Muriel Mayette's departure, he has been acting in the interim as director of the famous villa, the French Academy in Rome. A return to its roots. 

The portrait of Elisabeth-Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, a major piece in the sale of Stéphane Bern's furniture, sold for twice its estimate. It was the favorite painting of the French TV presenter, who is also a specialist in royalty and nobility, and who left his private hotel in Paris for the countryside.

The famous champion of heritage mingled the highly classical 18th century with iconic designer pieces in an interior that appealed to a wide audience.

About 60 prints, paintings, drawings, books, autographs and objets d'art together with traditional African and Asian art from the collection of Lucie Scheler and her father Lucien are coming up for auction.

Born in Paris, this fervent promoter of the CoBrA movement opened his first gallery in Brussels, "La Balance", before moving to the US where he discovered neo-expressionism. His eclectic collection was exhibited in 2014 at the Phoenix Art Museum. He is the father of gallery owners Rodolphe and Sebastien Janssen.

The gallery owner and collector, born in Paris in 1936, died quietly on 16 September at 84, to the relative indifference of the media.

An exciting exhibition about the reign of Charles VII at the musée de Cluny in Paris sheds light on the missing link between International Gothic and the French Renaissance, a period richer and more complex than it might seem.