The director of the Louvre acknowledged on Wednesday 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 and its star attractions — from the to the — reopened to long lines on Wednesday 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 a French Senate committee, Louvre director Laurence des Cars said Sunday's theft exposed a damaging shortage of security cameras outside the museum and other ″weaknesses."

Under heavy pressure over a theft that stained France's global image, des Cars testified that she submitted her resignation but that the culture minister refused

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