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France and Mexico Agree to Exchange Pair of Pre-Hispanic Manuscripts

01/07/2026

In May 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mexico City. It was Macron’s first official visit to Mexico, and was an important step in Mexico’s recent attempts to bolster trade relations with Europe. While …

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Louvre Reopens After Delay as Staff Resume Strike in Paris

01/05/2026

The Louvre Museum in Paris reopened to the public on Monday after a three-hour delay, though several areas remained closed as staff resumed strike action over pay, working conditions, and staffing levels. According to Reuters, museum workers met earlier in …

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Two Days Into Walkout, Louvre Staff Unions Vote to Continue Strike

12/18/2025

The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted unanimously on Wednesday to continue a strike that began Monday, when hundreds walked out in protest over “increasingly deteriorated working conditions,” the …

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Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions

12/16/2025

Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions TheLouvreclosed its doors to visitors on Monday, December 15, as staffersstruckin protest of what they have characterized as intolerable working conditions at theParisinstitution. TheNew York Timesreports that about four hundred of the …

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Louvre Staff Vote to Strike, in Latest Blow to French Museum

12/09/2025

At a meeting of 200 Louvre staffers from three unions, employees voted “with unanimity” in favor of a strike set to start on December 15, the Agence France-Presse reported Monday. A strike notice was filed by the CGT, CFDT, and …

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Louvre Workers Vote to Strike as Holidays Approach

12/09/2025

Louvre Workers Vote to Strike as Holidays Approach Earlier today, some two hundred employees representing threeunionsat theLouvrevoted unanimously to begin rolling walkouts on December 15 in response to “insufficient staff numbers as well as technical failures and the building’s aging …

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Christie’s Paris Suspends Its Sale of the First Calculating Machine

11/20/2025

Christie’s suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to the South China Morning Post. One of only nine surviving examples of calculators built by 17th-century French mathematician and inventor …

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French Art World Up In Arms Over Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art

11/15/2025

In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a …

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French State Auditor Issues Damning Report on Louvre Security

11/07/2025

French State Auditor Issues Damning Report on Louvre Security France’s court of auditors on November 6 released a report on security at theLouvreaccusing theParismuseum of prioritizing “visible and attractive” projects over upgrades to security. In publicly presenting the document at …

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French State Auditor Report Compiled Before Louvre Heist Released

11/07/2025

The French national audit has published its report on the Louvre‘s security, excerpts of which were leaked to press shortly after a trove of crown jewel were stolen from the museum. The report, known as the Cour des Comptes, found …

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Ancient Roman Cremation Process Revealed by Archaeological Find in France

11/04/2025

In what once functioned as an ancient Roman city focused on trade and thermal baths in the south of France, archaeologists have unearthed graves thought to offer new revelations related to Roman burial rites. After Marseille was taken over by …

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Two Suspects Arrested in Connection with Louvre Robbery

10/28/2025

Two Suspects Arrested in Connection with Louvre Robbery Investigators have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the audacious October 19 theft of France’s crown jewels from theLouvrein Paris. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in an October 26 …

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Louvre Director Requests 'Police Station' in Senate Hearing

10/22/2025

On Wednesday, Laurence des Cars, the president and director of the Louvre Museum, spoke publicly for the first time about the recent heist of France’s crown jewels. Robbers broke into the Parisian museum‘s Apollo Gallery on Sunday using a cherry …

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The Louvre Heist, Explained: How Thieves Stole $102 M. in Jewels

10/22/2025

It’s not every day that one of the world’s most well-attended museums gets robbed, but that’s exactly what happened on Sunday, when thieves broke into the Louvre during broad daylight and ran off with an array of bejeweled objects worn …

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