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Book summary:
From the rise to the fall, the great story of the red collars
Savoie, June 1861. François Claret marries Berthe and, the very next day, leaves his high-altitude village to settle in Paris and become a "red collar", or commission agent for the Drouot auction house.
He discovers a breathtaking place where works of art change hands and destiny in a flash, in an electric fever.
In this great fresco, Catherine Charrier immerses us in the intimacy of the commission agents of the auction house, these Savoyards who for one hundred and fifty years reigned supreme over millions of objects.
Until that day in 2009 when a painting by Courbet is mysteriously discovered in the home of a red collar worker...
The upheavals of a family
The secret of auctions
A century and a half of adventures
Not suitable for children.
