
French antiques fraudsters found guilty of Versailles chair scam
Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues are given suspended sentences for selling fake 18th Century chairs.
BBC News
Bill G.B. Pallot is an art historian, art expert, collector and lecturer at the Sorbonne University . He was honored with the French distinction of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier (1997) and he is now Officier in the same distinction (2011). In 2016, he was indicted for making and selling false eighteenth century furniture, some of which were sold to the Palace of Versailles.
Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues are given suspended sentences for selling fake 18th Century chairs.