The Louvre Museum in Paris, home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and other priceless works of art, was forced to open later than expected because of a labor strike on Monday, June 16. Thousands of ...
How, 233 years later, robbers still took advantage of the same window at the Louvre. And what exactly was stolen?
“The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum,” by James Gardner (Atlantic Monthly, 394 pages, $30) The Louvre is shuttered now, empty of humankind for the first time in eight ...
With renewed attention on the Empress after the theft of her jewels from the Louvre, it’s worth remembering that her flair ...