France is in debt to the tune of 2,000 billion euros. Could selling off the country’s art make a dent in that figure?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is probably the best known work of art in the world. Her enigmatic smile beams down on hundreds of thousands of tourists a year at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
She could also bring a smile to France’s cash-strapped government if a sale could ease the national debt.
Heavily-indebted Portugal is doing something similar, putting its state-owned collection of Miro paintings up for sale.
This post was published at France24
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