Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures During World War II by Gerri Chanel, Gerri Chanel

Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures During World War II

Gerri Chanel, Gerri Chanel

344 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction art history emotional informative medium-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. Thus began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans nea...

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