The Louvre in Paris has reopened three days after thieves made off with historic jewellery worth an estimated $A157 million in a spectacular heist that has raised urgent questions over security lapses at the museum.

Visitors queued to enter through the Louvre's glass pyramid for the first time since Sunday's brazen robbery, in which hooded assailants broke through a second-floor window using a stolen movers' lift before making off with jewels from the royal collection.

The museum's director is expected to appear before the French Senate later in the day to answer lawmakers' questions.

The Galerie d'Apollon, the ornate gilded hall that was robbed, remains closed.

Amid rising frustration in France that no senior official has taken responsibility, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez sa

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