In Seine-et-Marne, a village hits the jackpot thanks to legacies and will be able to build a leisure center

2023-12-07 07:32:29

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Jean-Pierre Didier, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, died in November 2020. Being childless and without heirs, he decided to bequeath his beautiful property to his village, as well as the rest of the watercolors and paintings in his collection. . Not to mention half of his archiving company. “Already, in 2017, he gave us around fifty works by Auguste Allongé on the occasion of the exhibition which was dedicated to the man who was nicknamed the king of charcoal, in the Jean-Renoir room,” underlines Myriam Lott , municipal councilor responsible for culture and heritage. Now we have 108 works in total. »