It is already, in a small way, Paris’s newest tourist attraction. “And on our right,” boomed the guide on the bateau mouche tour boat heading up the Seine, “the Louvre – and the window thieves smashed to steal France’s crown jewels.”
The world’s most visited museum reopened on Wednesday for the first time since a gang of four men broke into its Apollo gallery on Sunday, making off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades.
