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Tunis is opposed to an auction sale in Paris of the objects of his heritage

The tunisian authorities announced on Tuesday to investigate the output of the country without the permission of heritage objects from the time bey, whose manus

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Tunis is opposed to an auction sale in Paris of the objects of his heritage

The tunisian authorities announced on Tuesday to investigate the output of the country without the permission of heritage objects from the time bey, whose manuscripts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, sold at auction in Paris.

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one Hundred and fourteen pieces of"great historical value have been output in the second half of march 2020, without any official authorisation, and in full containment in the country", revealed on Tuesday to the AFP Faouzi Mahfoudh, director of the national Institute of heritage. These objects "do not belong to any State museum": it is "private property" belonging to the descendants of a dignitary bey, he said.

Under the title "Collection of a dignitary of the Court of the bey", they are put on sale by an auction house in paris the June 11, relayed through the site Drouot Digital.com institution in the art market Held ceremonial of the beginning of the Twentieth, religious manuscripts and poetry, correspondence, official: these objects are those of Lahbib Djellouli (1857-1957), a former minister of the Pen and of the Justice of the bey, the ruler of tunisia, passed to his son Ahmed, who died in 2011. In particular, there is a qur'an that once belonged to Mohamed el-Moncef Bey (1881-1948), bey of Tunis is deposed in 1943, and the last representative of the hussein dynasty. There is also the original copy of a reference work on this dynasty, "Ithaf Ahl al-zaman bi Akhbar muluk Tunis wa 'Ahd el-Aman" ("Now the men of our time. The chronicles of the kings of Tunis and the fundamental pact"), written by Ahmed Ibn Abi Dhiaf, a historian and politician in tunisia (1804-1874).

"I don't give away these objects to all the money in the world"

"The authorities (tunisian) must take the necessary action to stop this sale, because these items have a priceless value and are part of the history of the country," said Faouzi Mahfoudh. According to him, the service of tunisia in the fight against trafficking in archaeological has launched an investigation on Tuesday, and the national Institute of heritage, which has been alerted on the case this Sunday, will introduce "soon" a complaint with the attorney general of Tunis. The management of this institute has alerted the ambassador of Tunisia to the Unesco, Ghazi Ghrairi, Tunisia are no ambassador in France for several months. "I do not give away these objects to all the money in the world," said Faouzi Mahfoudh.

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it would be preferable that drouot investigation also, it is their responsibility not to be complicit in concealers...knowing that drouot has already pots on that side.

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