Embattled Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns

Laurence des Cars today relinquished her role as director of the Louvre. Des Cars had led the Paris institution since 2021. She had tendered her resignation last year, shortly after the broad-daylight theft of $102 million worth of crown jewels from the museum, but President Emmanuel Macron, who had named her to the post, refused to accept it. […]