Ambition of Parisian dealers’ new chief

Oriental art dealer Christian Deydier has been voted in as the new president of the France’s Syndicat National des Antiquaires (National Dealers’ Association) in Paris, defeating book dealer Claude Blaizot by 10 votes to 6. Outgoing president Dominique Chevalier, recently injured in a motorcycle accident, did not stand for re-election.

Compared to the softly-softly approach of Claude Blaizot, Syndicat president from 1995 until 2001, t…

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