Bill GB Pallot

Bill G.B. Pallot (born 17 February 1964) is an art historian, art expert, collector and lecturer at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV). He was honored with the French distinction of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier (1997) and he is now Officier in the same distinction (2011). In 2016, he was indicted for making and selling false eighteenth century furniture, some of which were sold to the Palace of Versailles. He is the son of Maurice-Claude Pallot, an antiques dealer in Burgundy, France. Bill Pallot first studied classics and history of art at the University of Lyon, France. He then continued his studies in history of art at the Sorbonne in Paris until he obtained his Diplome des Hautes études Approfondies en Histoire de L'art (D.E.A., 1986). The subject of his thesis entitled "Les Tilliard et les Foliot, menuisiers en siéges aux XVIIéme et XVIIIéme siècles". For over 20 years, he has been in charge of the department of furniture and objets d'art at the Didier Aaron Gallery in Paris. Advising major art collectors, he loves to transmit his passion for the 18th century not only to his private clients, but also to his students at the Sorbonne where he has been teaching for more than fifteen years. He is a member of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (Paris), a member of the Syndicat Français des Experts Professionnels (Paris) and a member of the Compagnie des Experts, the grouping of sworn experts before the Court of Appeal of Paris. He is a sworn expert in good standing before the Court of Appeal of Paris as well as before the French Customs authorities. Beyond this, he has donated to the Département des Objets d'Art of the Louvre Museum an armchair, c. 1770–75, by N.Q. Foliot (1996, Inv OA 11813) and a chair, c. 1785, by IB Boulard (2004, Inv. OA 12134). Under his patronage, a suite of 4 Louis XVI folding stools (2001, Inv. 1972) belonging to the Jacquemart-Andre Museum was restored. As a member of the Cressent Club (President : Maryvonne Pinault), he was also a sponsor of the restoration of the Department of Objets d'Art at the Louvre Museum.