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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 2051965, member: 6444&quot;]I read a new post in the Guardian newspaper about France selling off some of their antique furniture in September in order to help pay for Hospital costs associated with Covid. Hopefully the auction will go well.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does make one wonder whether there will be future liquidations of collections, similar to the sale of antiques at depressed prices that happened during the Great Depression of the 1930&#039;s? If I lived in France I would check this sale out: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/france-to-sell-some-of-nations-antique-furniture-to-support-hospitals" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/france-to-sell-some-of-nations-antique-furniture-to-support-hospitals" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/france-to-sell-some-of-nations-antique-furniture-to-support-hospitals</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france" rel="nofollow">France</a> is to sell off some of the nation’s antique furniture to support the country’s hard-pressed hospitals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/" rel="nofollow">Mobilier National</a>, the national furniture collection, is drawing up a list of objects in storage that will be auctioned off in September.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not yet known exactly what will be sold and officials did not respond to requests for details, but French media reported that about 100 objects dating from the 19th century, particularly from the reign of Louis-Philippe I between 1830 and 1848, will be selected.</p><p><br /></p><p>The auction, organised to “contribute to the national effort to support hospitals”, will take place on the Journées du Patrimoine (heritage days) on the weekend of 20-21 September. Proceeds will go to the <a href="https://infodon.fr/fondation-hopitaux-de-paris-hopitaux-de-france/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://infodon.fr/fondation-hopitaux-de-paris-hopitaux-de-france/" rel="nofollow">Foundation for Paris Hospitals and French Hospitals</a>, whose president is the first lady, Brigitte Macron.&quot;&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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