“KNOW NOTHING OF ART”
Statement About English / TRIAL OF FRENCHMAN Paris. January 29. The trial of J. C. Millet, grandson of the great painter, on a charge of selling - worthless pictures, opened at Fontainebleau. The court was crowded with experts and others. Millet, in the witness-box, vehemently denied that he was unpatriotic enough to defraud Frenchmen, but, he added the English know nothing about art. (Loud laughter.) “You can sell anything to English and Americans.” Millet added that the demand for his grandfather’s pictures exceeded the supply so he tried to meet it. lie cajoled £7OOO out of a London dealer. Prosecuting counsel suggested that Millet only admitted tlie London frauds because he was protected by tlie Statute of Limitations. (Note on Page 7.)
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 9
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