Carcassonne town hall decides to auction off two “ Avenue Pierre Curry ” signs. At the end of February, municipal employees fixed two plaques defaced with the name of the Nobel Prize winner in physics.

The sale is scheduled to last from March 8 to 31. The profits will be donated to the League Against Cancer. The error was initially intended to pay homage to the French physicist Pierre Curie, “ into a useful buzz, ” wrote the town hall in a press release.