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The Louvre reopens as museum director set to testify before French Senate

Thieves got away with eight pieces of jewelry worth $102 million, or €88 million, Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau told RTL radio on Oct. 21.

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Gold and silver coins stolen from French museum hours after Louvre heist

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Louvre Museum reopens after heist, as director set to testify to French lawmakers

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'Heist made it more exciting to go to the Louvre': Tourists react as museum reopens

Visitors have returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris, which reopened on Wednesday three days after millions of euros worth of jewellery stolen in broad daylight.

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Louvre in Paris reopens to tourists after jewel theft valued at over $100 million

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The Louvre reopens 3 days after thieves took off with French crown jewels in daylight heist

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Where the Jewels Stolen From the Louvre Museum Might End Up

“You don’t even have to put them on a black market, you just put them in a jewelry store,” said Erin Thompson, an art crime professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

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The Louvre reopens to loyal crowds even as the Paris museum reels after a stunning jewel heist

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Louvre reopens 3 days after jewel heist as director acknowledges ‘terrible failure’ and offers to resign

The Louvre’s Attraction Is Its History. That’s Also Its Weakness.

The brazen robbery on Sunday has put a spotlight on security protocols in the sprawling museum, which have been tested over the years by break-ins and thefts.

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Macron: Louvre theft an attack on France's heritage

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday denounced the spectacular theft of jewellery from the Louvre Museum in Paris as an attack on France's cultural history. "The theft from the Louvre is an attack on a cultural asset that we value because it is part of our history,

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Another French museum robbery sees 2,000 gold and silver coins stolen

The theft from the Maison des Lumières in Langres is the latest in as string of cultural institution heists in France.

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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 museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

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History Shows How Not to Resolve Political Differences

The history of the French Revolution shows that clamping down on dissent cannot heal political and cultural hatreds.

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

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.

'Shock still raw', French teachers fearful, five years after Samuel Paty killing

Five years after the death of French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded by a Chechen Islamist, "the shock is still raw", according to Paty's sister. The sentiments of pain and fear are shared by many teachers across France,