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The Day the Mona Lisa Disappeared (opens the original)
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A painter named Louis Béroud walked into the Salon Carré of the Louvre to sketch the Mona Lisa on Tuesday morning, August 22, 1911. But when he arrived at her usual place, Louis found four iron pegs and a blank wall where the painting should have been. Louis asked a guard. The man assumed the painting had gone to the museum’s photography studio. Hours passed before anyone understood that the most famous museum in the world had lost a Leonardo da Vinci painting. And that it had been gone since th
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