Re: Burglary at Empress Eugénie's Chinese Museum in Fontainebleau Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on March 2, 2015, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Burglary at Empress Eugénie's Chinese Museum in Fontainebleau"
Due to the "professionalism" of the burglars, the police seems to believe the burglars worked for a rich, discreet and very determined commissionner. Definitely not the petty thieves who would steal the handbag of a lady on the street... The press articles of which I gave the links in my initial post quote the chairman of the Museum board of the palace, who declared that the last burglary which had happened in Fontainebleau Castle took place in 1995, when 15 artefacts of the Napoleonic Museum (another section of the Castle) had been stolen; 9 out of these 15 have been found again and brought back to Fontainebleau. So, let's keep hope! This burglary reminds me of another theft in the French collection: in 1976, the splendid ceremonial sword of King Charles X, with its diamond-encrusted hilt, was stolen in the Apollo's Gallery of the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it was displayed with the other few remnants of the French Crown Jewels, which had not been sold at auction in 1887 by the republican government. Unfortunately, this sword has never been found, or seen, ever since.
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