Paris: It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates.

Instinctively, he took the shot.

It wasn’t a particularly great photo, with someone’s shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, the Paris-based AP photographer told himself.

But it did the job – showing French police sealing off the world’s most-visited museum after the brazen daylight robbery last Sunday.

Plus, Camus figured, the man walking past the officers was so well-dressed – a trench coat draped like a cloak, a jacket, a buttoned-up vest, an electric-blue tie, a fedora tilted just so – adding a touch of Paris couture to the sce

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