Paris, France, Oct 21, 2025 / 13:07 pm

The Louvre Museum in Paris became the scene of a meticulously planned daylight heist on Sunday morning, Oct. 19. Four helmeted men broke into the Galerie d’Apollon — home to France’s Crown Jewels — and stole eight pieces of jewelry described by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez as being of “inestimable heritage value.”

Among the stolen items was Empress Eugénie’s “reliquary” brooch, which reminded the world of the fervent Catholic faith of Napoleon III’s wife, now better known as a pioneer of modern luxury.

The robbers, who arrived in a truck on Quai François Mitterrand — the riverside avenue that runs along the Seine just below the Louvre’s main facade in central Paris — used a furniture lift to reach a first-floor window, broke into the gallery, an

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