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The evacuation of art from the Louvre as the Germans neared Paris in 1940 began a journey of the "Mona Lisa" and others around France, conducted by museum staff to keep these treasures out of German hands. The story of this effort is given comprehensively and excitingly here, illustrated with one-hundred photographs.

In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again and again during the war, crisscrossing the southwest of France. Throughout the German occupation, the museum staff fought t...

Monuments Men-style true story of the men and women of France's Musees Nationaux in the Second World War.

In late August 1939, as war loomed over Europe, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. Thus began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. A small army of workers swiftly emptied the Louvre's cavernous galleries of all but the most cumbersome and fragile pieces and tucked away the displaced treasures in the châteaux of the ...