Eight items of stolen jewellery included a tiara and earrings from the set of Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense.
What we know about robbery at Louvre Museum in Paris
Royal jewels stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris in a brazen daylight robbery over the weekend have been valued at more than $100m (some 88 million euros), a French prosecutor said.
“It is important to remember that this damage is an economic damage, but it is nothing compared to the historical damage caused by this theft,” Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau sa
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