His memories, his manuscripts will not be sold. The Paris court has decided to suspend the sale of more than 400 objects that belonged to Georges Brassens
Sets of pipes, the travel clock that the artist used to place on his desk, cpostal art, personal letters, song books or even shis last guitar… Hundreds of goods, estimated at one million euros, which had until now been kept by Françoise Onténiente, daughter of the secretary and friend of Georges Brassens, Pierre Onténiente. She had decided to part with it because all these objects were in a house that the singer had offered to his father.
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The latter, who died in 2013, had indeed inherited a house from the poet, as well as the usufruct of a second house in Paris. But the nephew and the great niece direct heirs of the artist estimate, them, that they do not belong to him. Hence this summary summons and the ban on this auction scheduled for Saturday October 22, 2022 in Paris.
A “reasonable decision”, reacts Master Maïa Kantor, who defends Serge Cazzani, the artist’s nephew, because it avoids a squandering and dispersion of this unique set of historical value. The family wishes that these goods can return to public institutions such as the National Library of France ou the town of Sète, birthplace of Brassens, explains the lawyer. His client will soon initiate a request for the return of all the lots placed in sequestration, until the dispute is settled on the merits and to know to whom these objects belong….
The Gros et Delettrez company, which was to take care of the auction on Saturday at the Drouot hotel in Paris, was also ordered to pay Serge Cazzani the sum of 5,000 euros, in respect of the procedural costs incurred by the other part.