Louvre: Timeline

1793   In Paris Paris

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, the French Revolution French Revolution

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ary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum Museum

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1911   Theft of ''Mona Lisa Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th-century [i] oil painting [i] ... 

'' discovered in Louvre (Vincenzo Peruggia is captured and the painting returned 1913)

1911   French France

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 poet Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire

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 is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the ''Mona Lisa Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th-century [i] oil painting [i] ... 

'' from the Louvre museum. He is later released.