Music scores with the museums, but Dreyfus and Zola hit the high notes
PARIS: The Piasa letters and manuscripts sale on December 17 brought Fr7.25m (£690,000) hammer with just 1 per cent bought in, and no fewer than 18 pre-emptions for the Bibliothèque Nationale, Comédie Française, Assemblée Nationale, Musée Victor-Hugo, and the towns of Avignon, Grenoble and Besançon.
The sale included manuscript song scores by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schubert; the latter’s two-page …