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1972 Art Theft in France
1972 Art Theft in France
Written By Mister Gu on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | 1:57 PM
In 1972, an unknown thief (or thieves) looted the town hall at Bagnols sur Ceze, France, and removed several impressionist paintings valued conservatively in the millions of U.S. dollars. No trace of the stolen paintings has been found since their disappearance in 1972, and no suspects have been named in the case. Bagnols-sur-Cèze was quite certainly a Roman town (the name of the town comes