News from Bayeux

14/7/23 - Acquisitions and renovations - Bayeux, Museums - Le Parisien informed us in an article dated 11 July that Nicole Paolini, a resident of Bayeux who died in March at the age of 86 and had no children, had bequeathed assets worth an estimated 2 million euros to the Musée Baron Gérard, the municipal museum in Bayeux (ill. 1). The article goes on to say that "Once all the assets have been sold, the money raised should be enough to pay off the loan taken out by the town a few years ago to restore the museum. Loïc Jamin, the deputy mayor with special responsibility for museums, adds that "we will also be able to purchase new works".

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