The “Louvre New Renaissance” plan launched earlier this year includes security improvements and modernization.

As a deadline fast approaches to either charge to release two suspects, a French lawmaker ripped security at the Louvre.

An image of a man in a fedora standing near police officers outside the Louvre in Paris caught the internet’s attention after a jewel heist at the museum. The photo was taken by French photojournalist Thibault Camus,

Days after eight pieces of the French crown jewels were stolen from the Louvre, a former bank robber who once toured the now-infamous Apollo Gallery for a Louvre podcast says he warned a museum official of weaknesses in security.

Alexandre Portier, the lawmaker leading the French parliament’s inquiry into the theft, said the heist had left a "wound."

Does a photo show a well-dressed French detective working the case of the Crown Jewels stolen from the Louvre? No, that's not true: The original poster later said it was a "fantasy version" she did not regret posting.