France chief to step down
Laure de Beauvau-Craon has announced that she will step down as chief executive of Sotheby’s France at the end of the year. She has held the post since 1991 and will be remembered for successfully lobbying the European Commission to bring about the abolition of the domestic auction monopoly of France’s commissaires-priseurs.
Beauvau Craon, who oversaw Sotheby’s first sale in Paris in November 2001, told the Antiques Trade G…