Surrealist André Breton’s personal art collection has been sold at auction. It brought in €46m (£31.8m), twice the pre-sale estimate. “The auctions, which went on late into the night to accommodate telephone bidders from the US, were disturbed by opponents of the state’s refusal to buy Breton’s rented flat near Pigalle, in the north of Paris, where the surrealist manifesto was drawn up in 1924.”