AN ECCENTRIC French millionaire has left his £8m fortune to a village because it shared its name with him – even though he never visited. Roger Thiberville, a meteorologist who lived in Paris, has ...

Throughout Roger Thiberville’s long life, he never once visited the Normandy town in France that gave him his last name, reports The Guardian. Descended from a family of vineyard owners, he inherited ...

Thiberville in Normandy receives windfall worth five times annual budget from a Paris resident who was named after it Throughout Roger Thiberville’s long life, he never once visited the Normandy town ...

The shock windfall represents five times the town of Thiberville's annual budget, and will fund projects from a public garden to a bowling green. A tiny town in France has been stunned by an ...

The quiet town of Thiberville in Normandy, France, was left stunned when it inherited an astonishing fortune of $10.2 million from a man who had never set foot in the town. Roger Thiberville, a ...