Article 1131 of the French General Tax Code
I. – Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the purchaser, donee, heir or legatee of a work of art, books, collectors’ items or documents of high artistic or historical value, is exempt from transfer duties and ancillary taxes relating to the transfer of these assets, when he donates them to the State within the period provided for the registration of the deed recording the transfer or the declaration of…