Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum
The Marie-Louise necklace and a pair of earrings were among the eight items stolen
A tiara worn by the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, was taken
Posted on 10/19/2025 5:28:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Authorities say the Empress Eugénie Brooch was among the stolen items
It is the most spectacular robbery at the Louvre museum since the Mona Lisa disappeared in 1911.
And it poses serious questions about levels of security covering French artworks, at a time when they are increasingly being targeted by criminal gangs.
According to France's new interior minister Laurent Nuñez, the gang that broke into the Apollo Gallery on Sunday morning was clearly professional.
They knew what they wanted, had evidently "cased the joint" in advance, had a brazenly simple but effective modus operandi, and needed no more than seven minutes to take their booty and get away.
In a truck equipped with an elevating platform of the type used by removal companies, they parked on the street outside, raised themselves up to the first floor, then used a disc-cutter to enter through a window.
Inside the richly decorated gallery they made for two display-cases which contain what remains of the French crown jewels.
Most of France's royal regalia was lost or sold after the 1789 Revolution, but some items were saved or bought back. Most of what was in the cases, though, dates from the 19th Century and the two imperial families of Napoleon and his nephew Napoleon III.
Louvre Museum
Louvre Museum
The Marie-Louise necklace and a pair of earrings were among the eight items stolen
A tiara worn by the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, was taken
According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.
They had belonged to Napoleon's wife the empress Marie-Louise; to his sister-in-law Queen Hortense of Holland; to Queen Marie-Amelie, wife of France's last...
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Imagine the idea. A crown dropped on No Kings Day. Wouldn't have happened in the US.
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During the French Revolution, they gutted Notre Dame Cathedral. They emptied the graves of many past kings at the Basilica of Saint-Denis and dumped them into a pit. They were going to tear down Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral, but changed their mind when the towns folk, there convinced them it would be too much work.
an inside job.
I’m pretty sure the Pawn Stars boys would only give you 1/5th of what they’re actually worth... But if you gamble and put it all on black... Who knows... Maybe you will win at Roulette.
Makes four times this has been reported here today.
Four different sources, four different articles.
Are you suggesting that once a topic has been addressed it should never be addressed again, even as more information becomes available as time passes?
Wasn’t that s^#thead Markle just in Paris???
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