France Seized Manuscripts

Hand-written 40-folio first-hand testimony by Helen Churchill Candee, an American survivor of the Titanic, is displayed prior to the auction of the Aristophil Collections, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, on Nov. 14, 2017. Thousands of French private investors, victims of an alleged pyramid scheme, hope to get some of their stake back when a huge collection of rare and valuable manuscripts begin to be auctioned in Paris next month by court order. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)