Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures from the Nazis by Gerri Chanel

Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures from the Nazis

Gerri Chanel

384 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative fast-paced
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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. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neare...

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