Sunday, October 19, 2025

Alexandre-Gabriel Lemonnier's Flashy 1855 creation......the bejeweled crown for the wife of Emperor Napoleon III, produced for the Exposition Universelle in Paris

was found, dropped and damaged during the October 19, 2025  heist from The Louvre...Princess Marie Clotilde Bonaparte....the crown's last owner before it ended up as a 'display item' .....likely, considered the head ornament vulgar and showy, anyway.....    in both that 'French' and 'English' Way......