The Louvre Museum in Paris became the scene of a meticulously planned daylight heist this past Sunday morning. Four helmeted men broke into the Galerie d’Apollon – home to France’s
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The Louvre Museum in Paris became the scene of a meticulously planned daylight heist this past Sunday morning. Four helmeted men broke into the Galerie d’Apollon – home to France’s Crown Jewels – and stole eight pieces of jewelry described by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez as being of “inestimable heritage value.” Among the stolen items was Empress Eugénie’s “reliquary” brooch, which reminded the world of the fervent Catholic faith of Napoleon III’s wife, now better known as a pioneer of modern luxury. Historian Éric Anceau, an expert on France’s Second Empire, called the theft “a catastrophe.”
