The Marmottan Museum, a three-story town house in Paris' tony 16th arrondissement, shares the elegant Rue Louis-Boilly with embassies and mansions. The neighborhood's air of tranquillity was shattered one morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name.
The thieves will not be able to ransom the pictures to an insurance company, the frequent fate of stolen art...
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