Tres Bien: French Government Buys Airy Greenwich Village Perch for $4.3 M.

The French government has, of late, been all vendre, vendre vendre when it comes to New York real estate, cashing in on the country's sprawling co-op at the superlative 740 Park and listing 1143 Fifth Avenue, a handsome brick and limestone building at E. 95th Street that has for years provided housing for diplomatic staffers . But naturally, even if not in the pre-war splendor of Park and Fifth, the republic's diplomats must still live somewhere .

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