Anne-Aymone Giscard d’Estaing Is Selling Part of Her Collection
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No less than 181 lots are listed in the blue-ribbon sale catalog of the collection of Anne-Aymone and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, president of France from 1974 to 1981. It is a portrait of a presidential couple’s artistic choices. © JEAN-CLAUDE DEUTSCH/PARISMATCH/SCOOP Mrs. Giscard d’Estaing, why did you decide to sell part of your collection?After my husband died, the house where we lived on rue Bénouville in the 16th arrondissement of Paris was too big for me to live there alone. My children picked the furniture and paintings they wanted to keep, and I took what could fit into my new apartment. I’m