Georges "Bill" Pallot, one of the most prominent 18th-century furniture experts in Paris, was convicted of forging and selling royal furniture that duped experts from the château de Versailles and ...

It has been almost a decade since the Parisian antiques dealer Bill Pallot stunned the art world by confessing to faking a series of royal chairs. According to the case, filed in 2016, 11 chairs and ...

In the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the French antiques market. Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for ...

After one of the biggest forgery scandals to rock the art world in recent years, 61-year-old expert Bill Pallot along with five other people as well as a prominent gallery are in the dock in Pontoise, ...

Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette. Georges "Bill" Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were ...

The reputation of one of Paris's oldest galleries is on the line. A suite of four Louis XVI gilt-walnut armchairs stamped by Louis Delanois that sold at Christie's Paris in 2015. Sarah Cascone June 10 ...

PARIS, France — A French court on Wednesday sentenced a top antiques expert to jail for duping the Palace of Versailles and wealthy collectors into buying furniture he had helped build, claiming it ...

An art scandal is brewing in France after the arrest of two respected antiques dealers on suspicion of selling fake furniture to Versailles. A royal scandal has struck the Palace of Versailles after ...

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2015-2833 Q C. HAJI v. VERSAILLES FURNITURE CORP. — Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Jodi Orlow, J.), entered February 26, 2015. The judgment, after a ...