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Freed from creditors, Libreville's Paris mansion set for facelift

Purchased at great expense by the Gabonese government in 2010, the mansion in central Paris has for a long time been something of a closed-off fortress, besieged by creditors. But Libreville is now preparing to build a cultural institute in one of its wings. [...]
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