400 books that belonged to the former Senegalese president and French academician Leopold Sédar Senghor are being auctioned this April 16. Each of these works will be on sale for between 20 euros and 3000 euros.
Calls are increasing, particularly on social networks, to ask Senegal to intervene urgently. But the poet's ultimate heir would intend to go through with this sale to pay the particularly heavy inheritance taxes to which she is subject. The sale is far from unanimous. It even arouses anger and sadness on the side of the “Senghor clan’s” side. The pretty house bourgeois town of Verson, with the bust of SenghOr and his academic sword, and a park of almost 2 ha, had on the other hand returned to the Norman commune, which is showing it slowly and has plans to open there one day a museum with partners. The issues are different for the former lady-in-waiting who, despite her attachment to the Senghors, must honor her inheritance rights. She had already sold a painting by the painter Soulages, who once hung in Verson.