Haute-Saône: Auction at the château smashes estimates after two days

Charles Perron, not yet 25, isn't much of a talker, and he may be overcome with emotion, but he won't say so. Throughout the week, the man who is still "the lord of the castle" of Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité, the estate bequeathed by his father Marcel, has seen auctioneers, experts, villagers, family members, curious onlookers and wealthy clients, luxury cars and utility vehicles parade past the foot of the monumental staircase. "We were expecting it," all this commotion. "But we didn't know what the sale's revenue would be."

It is, so to speak, unexpected: Saturday evening, at the end of the first two days of the Marcel Perron estate auction , the overall estimate of the sale of the 1,400 lots offered, expected at €500,000, was already valued at €1 million. There was still the third auction this Sunday, for other pieces of furniture, art objects and paintings, on site and on the internet, and a more...

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