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Reçu aujourd’hui — 1 mars 2026 ⏭ 6.9 📰 Infos English

The Guardian
An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world’s biggest museum go from here? 1 mars 2026 à 07:00

An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world’s biggest museum go from here?

1 mars 2026 à 07:00

After a heist and the departure of its boss, the French institution wrestles with water leaks, strikes and much-criticised plans for a €1bn renovation

Just over a year ago, Laurence des Cars, the intellectually brilliant (if famously prickly) former head of the largest and most-visited museum in the world, wrote a somewhat alarming note to her boss, France’s culture minister.

Des Cars, who on Tuesday resigned as president of the Louvre, lamented the advanced state of disrepair of the iconic museum’s buildings and galleries.

Reçu — 24 février 2026 ⏭ 6.9 📰 Infos English

The Guardian
Louvre president resigns as jewellery heist inquiry reveals ‘systemic failures’ 24 février 2026 à 19:26

Louvre president resigns as jewellery heist inquiry reveals ‘systemic failures’

The Guardian

Par : Jon Henley in Paris

24 février 2026 à 19:26

Laurence des Cars steps down days after parliamentary inquiry called Paris museum a ‘state within a state’

The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades.

Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aftermath of the burglary, tendered her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in what the French president called “an act of responsibility”, the Elysée Palace said.