The leak caused "micro-tears" to a 19th-century French artwork and forced the closure of three galleries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sunday theft from the Louvre Museum of eight priceless pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife has ...

Visitors to the Louvre will be forced to traipse through a “Mona Lisa journey” covering a vast 32,000 square foot reception area to get a glimpse of the painting, the museum’s director has announced.

PARIS (AP) — The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One ...

PARIS (CN) — Following one of the biggest jewelry heists in modern history, visitors swarmed into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Wednesday to catch a glimpse of the crime scene as the museum reopened to ...

When it was stolen in 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting had been missing from the Louvre for more than 24 hours before anybody noticed. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa on view at the Louvre Museum in ...

Historian Eric Anceau has termed the Louvre jewel heist the most serious and spectacular, even surpassing the theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. Speaking with French daily newspaper Le Monde, the historian ...

The Sunday theft from the Louvre Museum of eight priceless pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife has ignited a national outcry and nationwide manhunt. French President Emmanuel ...