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Curator Indicted on Laundering Charges Amid Louvre Investigation – RisePEI
French curator and archaeologist Jean-François Charnier has been indicted amid an investigation into the the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s acquisitions of…
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French Officials Detain Archaeologists Connected to Louvre Trafficking Investigation
French authorities on July 25 detained two high archaeologists who had been beforehand employed by worldwide consultancy Agence France Muséums…
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Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack
A person seemingly disguised as an previous lady in a wheelchair threw a bit of cake on the glass defending…
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Former Louvre Director Jean-Luc Martinez Indicted on Antiquities-Trafficking Charges
Jean-Luc Martinez, who served as director of the Louvre in Paris from 2013 by 2021, has been charged with trafficking…
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Former Louvre Director Jean-Luc Martinez Charged in Investigation – RisePEI
Earlier this week, information broke that former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez was being questioned by French authorities as a part…
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Former Louvre Museum Director Questioned by Police In Investigation – RisePEI
Jean-Luc Martinez, who served because the director of the Louvre in Paris from 2013 till final 12 months, was questioned…
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Louvre Blocks Sale of Chardin Painting of Strawberries – RisePEI
Final week, Jean Siméon Chardin’s Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) offered at an Artcurial public sale to New York artwork…
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Dealer Detained in Paris on Suspicion of Selling Looted Artifacts to Met, Louvre Abu Dhabi
German-Lebanese seller Roben Dib, who’s suspected by US and French officers to been closely concerned within the sale of looted…
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