No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re lucky the Louvre raiders had dreadful taste in art
- Posted on October 20, 2025
- By The Guardian
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No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re lucky the Louvre raiders had dreadful taste in art

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French cultural minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable cultural value’?