The 1911 Theft of the Mona Lisa
“In 1910, a high-ranking French official declared: ‘Stealing the Mona Lisa? As impossible as stealing the towers of Notre-Dame cathedral!‘ But less than a year later, on Tuesday August 22, 1911, the…
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