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\n Daily Scene in the Louvre<\/em>, a 1911 cartoon by Samuel Ehrhart, shows patrons blatantly stealing works from the museum after an inventory at the time found that over 300 canvases were missing.
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The Louvre Museum in Paris is closed after masked thieves stole priceless jewels in what officials have described as a seven-minute heist in broad daylight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the museum opened on Sunday morning, two bandits used a lift on a truck to break into its Galerie d’Apollon, which houses the French crown jewels and other treasures, through a second-floor window. That’s according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, which is looking for four male suspects.<\/p>\n

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The thieves smashed display cases, stealing what a Louvre spokesperson described as eight items<\/a> of “inestimable cultural and historical value.” They then fled toward a nearby highway on high-powered scooters. Two pieces of jewelry \u2014 including the crown of Empress Eug\u00e9nie, the wife of Napoleon III \u2014 were found near the museum afterward.<\/p>\n

The heist deals a huge blow to one of the most popular museums in the world, which houses valuable works like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa<\/em> and has drawn some 9 million<\/a> visitors in recent years.<\/p>\n