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The eight pieces of jewelry stolen from the Louvre Museum on Sunday — glittering works of diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and pearls, all with noted links to French history — have still not yet been recovered. (Except for the one tiara the thieves dropped and damaged while fleeing the scene.) I feel like reactions to the brazen theft have broadly fallen into two categories: French officials exclaiming, “Mon dieu, l’ héritage!” Versus the rest of the world going, “Ooooh, I love a good heist! When’s the movie coming out?” Don’t deny it — I read your comments! As a lover of both jewelry and cinema, I’m caught between the two camps. There’s no denying that the brooches, crowns, earrings, and necklaces stolen were “priceless” and “inestimable,” as many local author

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