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# Le Mobilier national to auction palace furniture during Heritage Days on 20 and 21 September
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gosudarstvennoe-agenstvo-frantsii-le-mobilier-national-kotoroe-otvechaet-za-tsennye-predmety-iskusstva-mebel-i-interery-v-gosuchrezhdeniiakh-dvortsakh-i-fondakh-provedet-bespretsedentny/
- Published: 2020-05-05T11:39:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:41.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, Art, Heritage, Society, Paris

The French state agency Le Mobilier national, which is responsible for valuable works of art, furniture and interiors in government institutions, palaces and collections, will hold an unprecedented auction on Heritage Days, 20 and 21 September. All proceeds from the sale of palace furniture, paintings, hangings, bronzes and the like will go to support the Hôpital de France Foundation, chaired by Brigitte Macron. The main catalogue of the auction is expected to include about a hundred pieces from the era of Louis-Philippe. According to the management of the «National Furniture Service», only items of no historical value will be sold. Indeed, French law forbids the disposal of public collections, except where certain items are struck off after a downgrading of their classification. Of course, in the eyes of the museum staff charged with safeguarding the national patrimony, a Louis-Philippe commode or sideboard of established provenance may well be of no particular value, never having belonged to crowned heads or to the arbiters of destinies. But on the whole, for lovers of antiques this will be a significant event. Though among the lots will also be works by quite well-known makers, for example Charles Cressent. As for the selling-off of the nation's property, it will not be amiss to know that between the full inventory of the holdings of Le Mobilier national in 1950 and 2007, thousands of items simply vanished: most of the losses occurred in French embassies in the countries of Eastern Europe, and some of the antiques that disappeared from diplomatic missions were later found on Vienna's Naschmarkt. Better to sell some things than to let them be pilfered by unscrupulous diplomatic staff.