On a busy Sunday morning in the middle of Paris, a brazen and remarkably efficient plan to steal some of the French crown jewels was put into motion.

Within just a few minutes, some of the priceless historical treasures had been removed from their gilded gallery home and were disappearing down a French highway on the back of Yamaha scooters, potentially lost forever.

Now, as French authorities scour Europe for some of their nation's most prized possessions, closer inspection of the Louvre museum itself reveals just how vulnerable it was to this type of attack.

Breaching the Louvre

While popular culture might depict the Louvre museum as one of the most secure buildings in the world, stepping through key details of the heist reveals the factors that led to thieves using notably unsophist

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