Small town shocked to inherit $10 million fortune from stranger

They’re in the monnaie.

Local officials in an “unremarkable” small town in France were shocked to discover that a wealthy Parisian had left them a fortune — completely without warning.

Roger Thiberville had never visited the Normandy burg of Thiberville, but when he died at 91 last year without an heir, he surprisingly chose to leave an estimated $10.2 million to the place — pop. 1,773 — that gave him his family last name, The Guardian reported.


Stone church with a steeple in the small French town of Lieurey, Thiberville in Normandy, which received a large bequest.
The wealthy Parisian had never visited the town, but had no trouble being generous toward it — only asking that his ashes be kept at the local cemetery. Google Maps

“It’s an exceptional sum…

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