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Four paintings by the Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Tuesday morning but dropped two of the paintings in the institution’s garden as they made their escape, local Mayor Bryan Masson said. The paintings, each worth
The Eiffel Tower has reopened after a one-day strike was called in response to the landmark’s management ordering female staff to keep out of sight at the request of a visiting religious group. City Hall, which operates the Paris landmark, has apologised for breaching France’s republican principle of equality and ordered a full inquiry. Workers
Stealing from the Louvre is understandable. Who would not want a Géricault or a Leonardo to hang in the downstairs loo? The same goes for the Musée d’Orsay, and even the Pompidou: they are French museums packed with remarkable art, all seemingly ripe for audacious theft. But the Renoir Museum? It is hard to see
French police are hunting two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum on the French Riviera after breaking in through a hole cut in its garden fence. Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, about 10 miles west of Nice, said the pair appeared to have been “well equipped and well informed” about
