Laurence des Cars leaves the Louvre

Her departure was inevitable, yet she held on for a little over four months after the theft of the Crown Jewels. Laurence des Cars is therefore leaving the Louvre by the back door, having submitted her resignation to the President of the Republic, who accepted it, as has just been published on the Élysée website.
This resignation is obviously no more sincere than the one she had offered to the minister on 19 October, just after the heist, slipped through a side door. It was in fact Rachida Dati who managed to persuade Emmanuel Macron to drop the President of the Louvre, whom he had long supported because he needed her to carry through his Louvre Renaissance project. Presenting this…