The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty crown jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One week on, the country is still wounded by the breach to its national heritage even as authorities Sunday announced arrests tied to the haul.

Alexandre Portier, the lawmaker leading the French parliament’s inquiry into the theft, said the heist had left a "wound."

French detectives announced that there is digital forensic evidence indicating that a security guard at the Louvre was in contact with the suspected thieves prior to the heist which has rocked

The Louvre Museum heist was a classic case of German efficiency. That at least is how a German freight lift manufacturer jokingly portrayed it in an ad.

THE heist hit Louvre has transferred jewels to an extra secure vault after the brazen daylight raid highlighted major security flaws. A seven-minute smash-and grab-heist saw a gang of thieves with

The same day masked thieves stole millions in crown jewels from the Louvre, another French museum was robbed of 2,000 gold and silver coins.

PARIS (AP) — It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctively, he took the shot.

Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of the The New York Times, discusses the painful irony at the heart of Sunday’s grand theft.