Vols chez Chagall 💸

Rafaël
Apr 7
1 min read

What really happened at Chagall's during the late 1980s? -

Salut à tou.te.s,

« Vols, escroqueries, meurtre… À la fin des années 1980, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, joli petit village provençal, devient le décor d’une invraisemblable saga policière. Dans la villa de Marc Chagall (1887–1985), des dizaines, voire des centaines d’œuvres, d’une valeur totale de plusieurs millions, sont dérobées à sa veuve. Les protagonistes ? Un chasseur de taupes culotté et une modeste gouvernante qui finira assassinée… », BeauxArts

"Thefts, fraud, murder... In the late 1980s, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, a pretty little Provençal village, became the setting for an improbable detective saga. In the villa of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), dozens, perhaps hundreds, of works, worth several million in total, were stolen from his widow. The protagonists? A cheeky mole hunter and a modest housekeeper who would end up murdered...", BeauxArts

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Preparation:

read the full story: https://www.beauxarts.com/vu/vols-chez-chagall-lincroyable-affaire-du-taupier-et-de-la-gouvernante-assassinee/
watch this week's episode about Marc Chagall: https://youtu.be/kaoFq3WgII0 (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar).
prepare one or two questions