It’s been a little over a month since a brazen jewel heist exposed what the Louvre ’s director described as a “terrible failure” in the museum’s security system, including but not limited to the fact that the museum’s video surveillance password was reportedly “Louvre.” Now it seems like heist vulnerability is not the renowned museum’s only problem. As of Monday, several major French unions whose members include Louvre employees have voted to strike , declaring that the museum is in “crisis.” News of the strike comes a few days after the Louvre confirmed that, at the end of last month, an estimated 400 books in the Egyptian Antiquities Department were damaged by a pipe leak . Is tout le monde okay?
Per the AP , in a Monday letter addressed to France’s culture minister, Rac

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