Louvre, Crown jewels
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Loot in the booty? The thieves who fleeced $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum may have hidden the precious pieces up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France. That eye-popping hypothesis was made by America’s most infamous jewelry thief,
-While in Madrid for the Carolina Herrera show I spent an entire day at the Prado. And it still wasn’t enough. I allowed some time—after the requisite stops at the Velazquez and the Goyas and the Zurbaráns—to wander. It’s how I found myself up a winding staircase and into the display of the Dauphin’s Treasure.