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Louvre remains closed 1 day after jewel heist

This isn't the Louvre's first high-profile heist. Here's a history of earlier thefts

The Louvre Museum in Paris is closed after masked thieves stole priceless jewels in what officials have described as a seven-minute heist in broad daylight.

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Louvre remains closed one day after jewel heist

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Louvre heist: What to know about brazen daylight theft

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Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist

The Louvre Museum in Paris is still closed on Monday while police investigate a brazen heist which targeted France's priceless crown jewels.

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Hunt for thieves continues after 'priceless' jewellery stolen from Louvre museum in Paris

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France’s Louvre Struck by Thieves in Daring Daytime Jewel Heist

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Historic jewels stolen in ‘national disaster’ for France: What we know about missing Louvre treasures

Precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum Sunday include an emerald necklace set among more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of “inestimable” value.

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See Louvre's 'priceless' jewels before they were stolen

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Jewel thieves hit Paris’s Louvre museum

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Napoleon's jewels missing: Thieves strike Louvre in daring heist, closing museum

In a brazen, seven-minute strike, thieves used a basket lift to reach the Louvre on Sunday morning and, as tourists were already inside, forced open a window, smashed display cases, and fled with jewe...

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Thieves Rob Priceless Jewels From Paris' Louvre in Brazen Heist

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Di 'priceless' jewels robbers tiff from Louvre Museum for Paris

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Jewels stolen from the Louvre include imperial crowns and necklaces

Other items include a sapphire necklace and earrings worn by Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense, and an emerald necklace and earrings of Empress Marie-Louise.

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Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris

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Masked thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from the Louvre Museum

A Brief History of Heists at the Louvre

From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian musuem has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

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The Louvre robbery: how history repeated itself after 233 years

Why, more than two centuries years later, are robbers still able to take advantage of the same window at the Louvre?

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Has anything like the Louvre theft happened in NC? The state's history of 'reverse art theft'

The Louvre heist puts art world theft in spotlight. Learn about North Carolina's strange history with art theft here.

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A daylight heist and a national 'humiliation': How 7 minutes at the Louvre stunned France

Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.

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The Louvre heist has us thinking about past art heists in Philly

What we know about the Louvre jewel heist, plus a look at thefts from museums in the Philly area over the years.

Louvre remains closed 1 day after jewel heist

Louvre, jewels

A Brief History of Heists at the Louvre

The Louvre robbery: how history repeated itself after 233 years

Has anything like the Louvre theft happened in NC? The state's history of 'reverse art theft'

A daylight heist and a national 'humiliation': How 7 minutes at the Louvre stunned France

The Louvre heist has us thinking about past art heists in Philly

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