Chirac’s town hall wine collection makes a million (Reuters via

October 22, 2006 Vino

Chirac’s town hall wine collection makes a million (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Wine enthusiasts paid almost a million euros to buy some of the best wines collected by French President Jacques Chirac while he was mayor of Paris.

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