{"id":2109797,"date":"2025-10-23T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2109797"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:40:00","slug":"the-louvre-heist-which-high-jewellery-pieces-once-worn-by-french-royals-were-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-louvre-heist-which-high-jewellery-pieces-once-worn-by-french-royals-were-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Louvre heist: which high jewellery pieces once worn by French royals were stolen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The glittering sapphires, emeralds and diamonds that once adorned France\u2019s royals could well be gone forever, experts say after a brazen, seven-minute heist in broad daylight left the nation stunned and the government struggling to explain a new debacle at the Louvre<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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A wedding couple hugs as visitors queue to enter the Louvre museum three days after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist, on October 22, in Paris. Photo: AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Each stolen piece represents the pinnacle of 19th-century haute joaillerie<\/span><\/a>, or high jewellery. For the royals, they were more than decoration. The pieces were political statements of France\u2019s wealth, power and cultural import. They are so significant that they were among treasures saved from the government\u2019s 1887 auction of most royal jewels.<\/div>\n

Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor whose office is leading the investigation, said Tuesday that in monetary terms, the stolen jewellery is worth an estimated US$102 million (88 million Euros) \u2013 a valuation that doesn\u2019t include historical worth. About 100 investigators are involved in the police hunt for the suspects and the gems, she said.<\/p>\n

Now the sparkling jewels, artefacts of a French culture of long ago, are likely being secretly dismantled and sold off in a rush as individual pieces that may or may not be identifiable as part of the French crown jewels, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s extremely unlikely these jewels will ever be retrieved and seen again,\u201d Tobias Kormind, managing director of 77 Diamonds, a major European diamond jeweller, said in a statement. \u201cIf these gems are broken up and sold off, they will, in effect, vanish from history and be lost to the world forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A board reads that the opening of the Louvre museum is delayed, but it remained closed for the day after Sunday\u2019s jewels robbery. Photo: AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Taken, officials said, were eight pieces, part of a collection whose origin as crown jewels dates back to the 16th century when King Francis I decreed that they belonged to the state. The Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said that two men with bright yellow jackets broke into the gallery at 9.34am \u2013 half an hour past opening time \u2013 and left the room at 9.38am before fleeing on two motorbikes.<\/p>\n

What happens now is a race against time both for the French authorities hunting the thieves and for the perpetrators themselves, who will have a hard time finding buyers for the pieces in all their royal glory.<\/p>\n

The Louvre reopened Wednesday for the first time since the heist Sunday morning, although the Apollo Gallery where the theft occurred remained closed.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of the stolen pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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