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Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

French mayor wants painting on Madonna's wall back in town after it 'vanished in WWI'

A town is pleading with Madonna to return a painting which was once thought to have been destroyed in World War I.

The mayor of Amiens in France has asked the American pop superstar to loan back the artwork by Jérôme-Martin Langlois after it was alleged to have disappeared more than a hundred years ago.

She has staked her claim after experts identified the painting - originally commissioned by Louis XVIII for display in the Palace of Versailles- on her wall in a photograph taken inside her home with her son.

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