Stéphane Bern leaves Paris and sells his furniture at auction

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CULTURE – When leaving the capital, the journalist Stéphane Bern also separates himself from his furniture and objects that decorated his Parisian home located in the Pigalle district between the 9th and 18th arrondissements. And it will be possible to acquire these goods through an auction, organized by the house Daguerre January 25, 2022 at the Hotel Drouot.

“I am abandoning a place steeped in history and, at the same time, I felt that it was also necessary to separate from the objects and furniture that had made up my world for almost two decades,” he explains. In all, more than 150 lots will be on sale, including a portrait of Elisabeth-Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, mother of Marie-Thérèse of Austria and grandmother of Marie-Antoinette (estimated at 15,000-20,000 euros), or a chandelier by Hervé van der Straeten (12,000-15,000 euros).

Expensive restoration work

The specialist in royal families had confided in wanting to leave Paris after noting the “general carelessness”, “violence”, “ugliness” or even “dirt” of the city. This sale will not be done without pain, adds the television host: “It is certainly not without a pang in my heart that I part with some of these objects, paintings or furniture, but I have no doubt that they will find refuge in other welcoming homes where they will be appreciated as much as I loved them. ”

This decision was also taken in order to finance the works of his new residence located in the Perche, the former royal and military college of Thiron-Gardais (Eure-et-Loir) which he has owned since 2013. “My move n ‘ is not the sole and compelling reason for this sale; I decided to continue in my village of Perche the costly restoration work that I undertook by creating a new entrance for the museum of the Royal Military College, by fitting out a temporary exhibition room or by rehabilitating an old dovecote from the 16th century century that was part of the Abbey of Tiron. ”

“It is true that I do my best to carry out these different projects without requesting any public subsidy … furthermore, on a voluntary basis, a mission of safeguarding endangered heritage”, he explains. Nothing surprising for the one who is also the “Mister Patrimony” of the government.

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