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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures During World War II
Saving Mona Lisa The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures During World War II
Author: Gerri Chanel
For table of contents, excerpts and selected images, see www.SavingMonaLisa.net — 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. Thus began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780615990392
ISBN-10: 0615990398
Publication Date: 5/9/2014
Pages: 344
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Heliopa Press
Book Type: Paperback
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