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Times staff writers Lauren Ng and Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this report.

Staff writer Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this article.

Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette.

During the trial, the prosecution had argued that Laurent Kraemer and his gallery in Paris were at fault for failing to sufficiently check the authenticity of the items they bought, before selling them on to buyers such as Qatari prince Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani, who bought two chairs said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette for €2m.

Washington’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Maine’s Jared Golden, and California’s Adam Gray all took the stage opposite Matt Yglesias, the blogger and intellectual lodestar of this event.