PARIS (AP) -- A glittering exhibition of royal jewels is opening in Paris even as the city still reels from the brazen crown-jewel heist at the nearby Louvre Museum.
The four-minute operation in October emptied cases in the Louvre's Apollo Gallery, forced its closure and rattled public confidence in France's cultural security.
With the plundered gallery still sealed off, another museum nearby is showcasing diamonds and tiaras that endured revolutions, exile and empire: treasures that have managed to escape the type of plunder now afflicting the Louvre's own jewels.
The "Dynastic Jewels" exhibition at the Hotel de la Marine -- itself the site of an infamous 1792 crown-jewel theft -- opens at a mom
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