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Pompidou, better reader than good collector

2020-02-26T17:54:24.561Z


AUCTIONS - Without reaching heights, its very classic library has nevertheless attracted buyers from all continents.


There was indeed a Georges Pompidou effect for the sale of his "literary and poetic library" dispersed in a tiny room of the Ambassador hotel, boulevard Haussmann (and jointly on the internet), by the auction house Alde, specialist in books , autographs and coins. As a collector, the name of this former president resonated more with art, design, architecture than literature. However, it motivated buyers from all countries. They were around 80 from London, Istanbul, Zagreb, Kobe, Prague, Palm Spring (United States), Singapore or Gurugram (India), to have registered to bid. But the prices did not reach extraordinary sums, because there were no works to make the great bibliophiles fade with envy.

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With the exception of a few lots: 14,000 euros (without fees) for an original edition of Stendhal's Rouge et Noir in two volumes in its vintage binding or 23,000 euros (without fees) for Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations ,

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