{"id":458988,"date":"2026-02-05T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:54:09","slug":"empress-crown-dropped-in-louvre-heist-to-be-fully-restored-to-its-original-state-museum-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458988\/","title":{"rendered":"Empress\u2019 crown dropped in Louvre heist to be fully restored to its original state, museum says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">The Louvre said the crown still had all its pieces, except for one of the eight golden eagles that adorned it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">It retains all 56 of its emeralds and all but 10 of its 1354 diamonds, the museum said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">It said an expert committee led by the museum\u2019s president, Laurence des Cars, had been selected to supervise the restoration, which would be carried out by a qualified expert chosen in a competitive selection process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities have arrested all four alleged members of the heist crew but have not found the mastermind &#8211; or the remaining jewels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">The thieves made off with eight other items of jewellery, including a diamond-studded tiara that belonged to Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Louvre said the crown still had all its pieces, except for one of the eight golden eagles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[22802,449,458,459,64,63,7822,236102,4212,460,1926,236098,134,236099,236100,14014,34225,151833,4717,236103,36687,32482,87480,21815,122966,204259,61396,45388,102587,4215,57059,2177,236101,319,24080,14329,1050,1547],"class_list":["post-458988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-abandoned","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-be","tag-brazen","tag-crown","tag-design","tag-dropped","tag-empress","tag-entertainment","tag-eugenie","tag-fleeing","tag-french","tag-fully","tag-heist","tag-in","tag-intact","tag-its","tag-last","tag-louvre","tag-museum","tag-nearly","tag-original","tag-restored","tag-robbery","tag-said","tag-says","tag-staged","tag-state","tag-thieves","tag-to","tag-today","tag-which","tag-will","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}