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The Ornate Room Where the Louvre Heist Occurred Inspired One of the Most Famous Rooms in France
Both were constructed under the eye of King Louis XIV, who relished gilded moldings, sweeping murals, and decorative flourishes.
The Louvre will remain closed for a second day running on Monday, management told the Agence France-Presse, after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum in Paris a day earlier. "The museum is not opening today,
The president and director of the Louvre Museum has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the heist of priceless jewels.
A specialized police unit is handling the investigation into a brazen daytime heist of eight pieces of "priceless" jewelry from Paris' Louvre Museum.
Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and suspicion for more than a century.
Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
Thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris — the world's most visited museum — early Sunday morning. Museum officials said they stole jewelry and fled.
One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects.