They are in Monet.
Local officials in an “unremarkable” small town in France were shocked to learn that a wealthy Parisian had left them a large sum of money without warning.
Roger Tiberville never visited the Normandy town of Tiberville, but when he died last year without heirs at the age of 91, he surprisingly chose to leave an estimated $10.2 million to the site. . 1,773 — which gave his family surname, guardian Reported.
“It's an incredible amount of money. Obviously the amount is beyond imagination,” Tiberville Mayor Guy Parris told a local radio station. “I don’t know what to do with it yet.
The prince's amount was said to be more than five times the city's budget.
“We're not going to spend it all. We're going to manage this dowry carefully and responsibly, just as we've always done with municipal budgets,” Hizner asserted.
First on his wish list is to pay off his $400,000-plus bank loan. It was demolished to make way for a new school.
The city of Paris said that in consideration of the donation, the much-anticipated public gardens, boules courts and soccer pitches could also be built.
A man named Cybertville worked as a meteorologist and lived “modestly” in Paris, where he is said to have inherited a fortune from his family.
In addition to handing over his worldly possessions to a group of strangers, he also asked for his ashes to be deposited in a local cemetery.
“Mr. Tiberville asked for nothing in return for his legacy, but we owe him at least that,” the mayor said.
The town of Tiberville, described by the Guardian as “unremarkable”, has little else to offer other than an abandoned ribbon factory. According to French law, the town does not have to pay inheritance tax on this generous gift.
The two neighboring villages decided not to merge with Tiberville in order to ensure that all three municipalities benefit from federal programs offered to communities with populations of 2,000 or more. reported not receiving any benefits.
Politicians from nearby Le Planquet and La Chapelle-Haring are said to have rejected the plan.
Unusual decisions regarding inheritance frequently make the news. For example, one couple proudly said they would rather spend their money traveling around the world than leaving an inheritance to their children.
Leanne and Leon Ryland from Australia made headlines when they publicly stated that their two adult sons would not receive a cent.
So far, the Rylands have spent triple-digit sums to see the “wonders of the world” since their retirement, and are figuring out how to spend their money while other couples their age can still enjoy life. I even helped them do that.
One critic raged on social media: “Baby boomers are evil…bragging about their holidays abroad and blowing away their money so their children don't have an inheritance.”
