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Thieves forced a window at the Louvre on Sunday and fled with nine Napoleonic jewels in a four-minute heist.

The brazen robbery unfolded during public hours using a basket lift, with tourists crowding corridors just yards from the Mona Lisa.

Empress Eugénie’s crown was recovered broken. The theft highlights ongoing concerns about understaffing at the world’s most-visited museum.

PARIS — In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift to the Louvre, forced a window into the Galerie d’Apollon — while tourists pressed shoulder-to-shoulder in the corridors — smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials

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