The theft of the Crown Jewels at the Louvre (October 19, 2025)
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The senators’ questions to which Laurence des Cars did not respondLes auditions devant les commissions du Sénat ou de l’Assemblée nationale se déroulent toujours selon le même schéma. Après un discours liminaire, la personne auditionnée est interrogée par les…
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Louvre: Inspection Générale report slams Laurence des CarsIt is a security failure and, more broadly, a failure for everyone.” This is what Rachida Dati has just declared in an interview on TF1 (ill. 1) concerning the report by the Inspectorate General of…
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Closed rooms: the Louvre investigatesLa question des effectifs de surveillance au Musée du Louvre est cruciale, pas uniquement pour la sécurité des œuvres, mais également pour l’ouverture des salles. Comme nous l’avons souvent écrit, en…
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Public procurement: the new scapegoats of the Louvre and the MinistryDuring her hearing before the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee, Laurence des Cars explained that the security work "requires considerable time for analysis and diagnostics". These works are indeed…
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The “New Renaissance of the Louvre” project is the problem, not the solutionBeing a Cassandra is never a pleasant position. Yet, for the Louvre, that is what we have been. We are, of course, referring to the "New Renaissance of the Louvre" project conceived by Laurence des…
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Theft prevention security, completely absent from the Louvre’s activity reportsAs we previously wrote, we found no trace in Laurence des Cars’ past media interviews of any statements suggesting she had made security an "absolute priority," as she claimed during her Senate…
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Laurence des Cars’ hearing: is security an absolute priority?Laurence des Cars was therefore questioned on Wednesday by the Senate Cultural Committee. It was a long session, as is customary in this type of hearing, where many questions were asked, some of…
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Louvre crown jewels: the president in denialFrench Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, announced in a tweet the “opening of a ‘fact-checking’ line by the Louvre Museum’s press office” to counter the “false information circulating about the…
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An update on the theft of the Crown Jewels at the LouvreIf we are publishing this article so long after the event, it is because we were fully engaged on television and radio platforms, attempting to shed light on this affair. This provides greater…
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