Paris goods burn

FRANCE: A fire on September 10 at a storage warehouse used by the Hôtel Drouot at Le Blanc Mesnil, 10 miles north-east of Paris, destroyed goods consigned to five different commissaires-priseurs by some 800 clients.

Drouot say that no major work of art was lost. Police are investigating the origins of the fire.

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