A heist at the Louvre — and a warning for Macron’s France

Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston. His latest book is “Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.”

By now, much of the world knows that on Sunday morning, a band of burglars stole several priceless jewels from the Louvre. The heist, as the French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin confessed, was “rocambolesque.”