When thieves in balaclavas smashed a window of the Louvre with a crane on Sunday morning, storming into the Galerie d’Apollon to seize pieces from France’s royal collection, it seemed an audacious strike even by Paris standards. But as the…

When thieves in balaclavas smashed a window of the Louvre with a crane on Sunday morning, storming into the Galerie d’Apollon to seize pieces from France’s royal collection, it seemed an audacious strike even by Paris standards. But as the…