Overview

• Bill Pallot, a former Sorbonne professor and royal furniture expert, received four years in prison with four months to be served immediately, a €200,000 fine, and a five-year ban on expert duties.
• Bruno Desnoues, a celebrated cabinetmaker, was handed three years behind bars including a four-month firm term and a €100,000 fine for his role in producing the forgeries.
• The tribunal acquitted the Kraemer gallery after finding insufficient evidence of deliberate wrongdoing in its handling of the sales.
• Investigators found that nearly half of the counterfeit chairs and armchairs were sold to the Château de Versailles between 2008 and 2015.
• The scheme was uncovered during an unrelated inquiry into money laundering by a Portuguese couple in Val-d'Oise who had been funneling proceeds from the sales.