A gang of thieves robbed the world-famous Louvre Museum on Sunday, October 19, 2025 — and I legitimately haven't been able to stop reading about it or thinking about it. It is, frankly, something straight out of a movie that a group of people dressed as security guards in orange and yellow vests scaled a French furniture crane known as a monte-meuble near a window into the museum's Galerie d'Apollon in its Petit Galerie wing, and grabbed as many jewels as they could, presumably. After all was said and done, and even though these robbers managed to drop an entire royal crown covered in jewels and constructed of gold that once belonged to Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugénie, they made off with plenty of precious gems that belonged to her, as well as jewels gifted by Napoleon Bonaparte to

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