The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugénie, which was found damaged near the Louvre after being dropped by ...
Sometimes art inspires awe-other times it inspires brazen break-ins. Here are seven of the biggest art heists in history.
PARIS (AP) — The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One ...
Firestone puts it this way: The jewels are “the Louvre’s final word in the language of monarchy — a glittering echo of kings and queens as France crossed into a new era.” They are not ornaments, she ...
"Inimaginable" or 'unimaginable' is how Paris's newspapers reported the theft of the Mona Lisa. Louvre, one of the world's most visited and iconic museums, has a history of being robbed and that too ...
Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful ...
The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris was closed on Sunday following a robbery, France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati confirmed. Authorities have not yet disclosed details about what was stolen or ...
A gang of masked thieves broke into the Louvre using chainsaws and stole several pieces of “priceless jewellery” on Sunday in an extraordinary heist in broad daylight. France’s interior minister, ...
On this day 114 years ago, a handyman walked into the Louvre Museum in Paris and walked out with the most famous painting in the world. That's right, the Mona Lisa was stolen on Aug. 21, 1911, so ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The owner of Mona Lisa, a longtime Italian restaurant in the French Quarter, says the eatery is no longer facing eviction and will remain open. Farrow Stephenson said last week he ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The owners of Mona Lisa restaurant on Royal Street in the French Quarter tell WGNO that an enormous outpouring of support has led the new landlord to reconsider the decision to ...