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French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

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Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet and writer (1880–1918)

Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.
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Mona Lisa

Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most…
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Louvre

Art museum in Paris, France

The Louvre or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the…
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