The director of the Louvre Museum on Wednesday acknowledged a terrible failure at the Paris monument after a stunning daylight crown jewel heist at the world's most-visited museum, and said she offered to resign but it was refused.

The Louvre reopened earlier in the day to long lines beneath its landmark Paris glass pyramid for the first time since one of the highest-profile museum thefts of the century stunned the world with its audacity and scale.

In testimony to the French Senate, Louvre director Laurence des Cars said the museum had a damaging shortage of security cameras outside the monument and other weaknesses exposed by Sunday's theft.

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Under heavy pressure over a theft that stained France's global image, she testified

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