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Louvre Closed After Thieves Steal ‘Priceless’ Jewels in Brazen Daylight Robbery

Masked thieves steal “priceless” jewels from the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery in a daring daylight robbery, forcing the museum’s sudden closure Sunday.

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Louvre Museum closed second day; police race to find stolen jewels

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Louvre museum robbery: Jewels gone in daring heist

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Louvre Heist Sparks Security Scramble Across French Museums

French Justice Minister Gerard Darmanin said on Monday the jewelry heist at the Louvre museum on Sunday gave a very negative image of France as it implied a failure of security services.

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

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

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How the Louvre Jewelry Heist Unfolded

The items included a royal sapphire necklace, a royal emerald necklace and a diadem worn by Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, France’s 19th-century ruler.

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Thieves who hit Paris' Louvre robbed 8 objects, prosecutor says

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Jewels stolen from the Louvre include imperial crowns and necklaces

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.

House & Garden

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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Louvre heist: Where might the loot end up?

The heist at the Louvre in Paris has shocked the art world, though such spectacular thefts have a long tradition. What drove the perpetrators, and where might the loot end up?