In total, thieves stole about €88 million worth of jewels on Sunday, including a necklace Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Marie-Louise of Austria, the tiara, necklace and earrings of Queen Hortense, and a diadem, diamond bow brooch and reliquary brooch that once belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

Image courtesy of ABC News By Griffin Cappiello This is an independently submitted op-ed and does not reflect the views of The Tower Earlier this week, a group of thieves broke into the famous Louvre museum in Paris and stole a collection of priceless royal crown jewels.

Just days after a stunning heist at the Louvre Museum, speculation is growing around where the lavish, stolen jewels that once adorned France’s royals might end up.

How thieves pulled off the extraordinary theft of priceless jewels from the world-famous museum in broad daylight.

Burglars who broke into the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday initially failed to open the display cases with angle grinders, the Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday, citing museum surveillance footage.

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre reopened on Wednesday to long lines beneath its landmark Paris glass pyramid, just three days after one of the highest-profile museum thefts of the century stunned the world for its audacity and scale.

French authorities are under growing scrutiny about whether security failings allowed four thieves to steal royal jewelry worth over $100 million.

Museum security concerns rise after the latest Louvre robbery, as experts recall other major art thefts, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's still-unsolved heist from 1990.