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Billionaire s Unwanted Paris Art Museum Opens with Melting Statues and Talking Mice Erin Zaleski © Provided by The Daily Beast Sarah Meyssonnier
PARIS–More than 20 years ago, when billionaire business mogul François Pinault was in the planning stages of creating a venue in Paris to display his vast personal collection of contemporary art, some responses to his vision were, to put it generously, lukewarm.
Pinault had his eyes on an island in the middle of the Seine in the well-to-do suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, but the mayor,
Libération reported, “didn’t roll out the red carpet.”
Apparently, it was only when then-President Jacques Chirac intervened on Pinault’s behalf during an Elysée garden party, and the reluctant mayor green-lighted the museum.