How a sneaky furniture expert ripped off the rich and tricked Versailles

Vanity Fair:

In June 2016, Bill G. B. Pallot and Charles Hooreman, rival antiques dealers in Paris, became the two most famous men in the French art world. That was when Pallot admitted to the police that he had masterminded the forgery of at least four chairs purportedly built in the 18th century for France’s royal household and, in a series of transactions via third parties between 2009 and 2015, sold them to the Palace of Versailles.

I love a good caper story. This one has, perhaps, my favorite lines of all time:

“I licked the chair and voilà,” he says. “I could taste the fraud.”

That line makes this story simply irresistible.