Empress Eugénie’s Damaged Crown to Be Restored After Louvre Heist

When thieves broke into Paris’s Louvre on October 19 last year, they ran off with an estimated $102 million in jewels. In their scramble to escape, however, they left behind what may have been top of their loot list: the crown of Empress Eugénie. Dropped and badly damaged during the heist, the diamond- and emerald-encrusted crown is now slated for a painstaking restoration before it returns to public view in the museum’s Galerie d’Apollon.Judicial police initially seized