"The band of robbers who broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and stole eight Napoleonic pieces of priceless jewellery in a four-minute heist were just the latest in a long line of daring thieves who have targeted the iconic museum. The robbers used a truck-mounted ladder to reach the gilded Galerie d'Apollon (Apollo's Gallery) on the second floor before taking an angle grinder to a window to access the French crown jewels."
"A ninth item they stole the crown belonging to Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III's wife was recovered nearby after it was dropped by the group, the French Ministry of the Interior said. The Louvre was a royal palace for more than two centuries. The revolution had made totems of monarchical history especially vulnerable to looters, and the Louvre, besides giving everyday French people a glimpse of these precious items, sought to protect the legacy they represented."
A gang broke into the Louvre and stole eight Napoleonic pieces of priceless jewellery in a four-minute raid, accessing the gilded Galerie d'Apollon via a truck-mounted ladder and an angle grinder. One ninth item, Empress Eugenie's crown, was dropped and recovered nearby. The robbers remain at large and the museum has closed temporarily. The Louvre served as a royal palace for over two centuries and opened as a public museum in 1793. Historical thefts include the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which boosted the painting's modern fame.
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