A DIAMOND ROMANCE.
Th e famous Louvre picture gallery in Paris will scon be reopened to the public. All the art treasures, which were taken away at the outbreak of the war when the Germans were threatening Paris, and which were taken to Toulouse, are back. No fewer than 1200, all famous pictures, were packed up in five days and sent to Toulouse, whore they were kept in a church. As for the "Regent" Diamond, which belonged to the -crown of the Kings of Franco, and which is estimated to b e worth ten million of francs, it may- no-w be told how M. Dali, then Minister for. Fine Arts, on the eve of the Departure of the French Government for Bordeaux, went himself to the museum, placed the famous diamond in a small box he had bought at the Louvre store for a pound, put it in'his pocket, and travelled with it to Bordeaux.
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Taihape Daily Times, 28 April 1919, Page 6
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155A DIAMOND ROMANCE. Taihape Daily Times, 28 April 1919, Page 6
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