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French justice moves slowly. The original charge against Cazot & Millet was made nearly five years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930). At that time a French businessman and collector named Michaux discovered that a Millet painting for which he had paid 150,000 francs was a forgery. Police called at the shop of Grandson Millet from whom the picture had been bought, found him ready to confess...
There followed such a mass of charges and counter-charges that examining magistrates were glad to postpone the entire business, clap Grandson Millet into jail on the simple charge of passing worthless checks...
...Grandson Millet started his career as dealer in forged paintings many years ago when he took one of his grandfather's genuine paintings, in very bad condition, to Paul Eugene Cazot, an unknown artist, to be repaired. Cazot did his job much too well. The pair took to copying little-known Millets, then to producing original works of art by Millet. To do this they needed only the skill of Artist Cazot, a chemical analysis of the original Millet paints, and a supply of old canvases, which they bought at the Parisian flea market for two or three francs...
...trial last week, the pair again admitted their guilt, but insisted that they had bilked only citizens of Britain and the U. S., fair game to any Frenchman. Furthermore, they claimed that the particular picture for which they were being tried was a genuine Millet...
...sell anything to the Americans and the English," said Grandson Millet. "They know nothing about art. They buy only pictures with pedigrees, but have not the slightest notion whether they are genuine or not. All you have to do is ask a fabulous price...