ARTIST'S FORTUNE. PARTS, .Tan. 1. After many months of litigation judgment lias ,iii*t been delivered by the Paris court in the* dispute over the estate of the famous painter Degas, involving a sum a several million francs. The painter's estate devolved in the first instance upon M. Rene Dogas, who died in 1920. On his death the whole of the estate was claimed on behalf of the two children of a first marriage which M. Rene Degas had contracted at New Orleans, United States, in 1860. The court has decided that the portion of the estate which the deceased was able to will away must la? divided between the children of the first and second marriages, but that the legal inheritance of the French children is j intangible.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1926, Page 4
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