Paris | A flamboyant French art expert and “master forger” fooled the Palace at Versailles into buying fake “Marie Antoinette” chairs, a court heard this week.
Bill Pallot, an expert on 18th-century French furniture, is accused of running a counterfeit operation between 2008 and 2015 as part of a €4.5 million ($7.7 million) scam that one leading gallery owner dubbed “catastrophic” for the prestige of Gallic art dealing.
