Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.

It has been dubbed the “heist of the century” – the theft in broad daylight of Napoleonic-era artefacts from the renowned Louvre Museum in Paris.

In that sense, the Louvre heist wasn’t really art crime, Vernon Rapley, a former leader of the London police force’s art squad, told my colleague Alex Marshall. It was “commodity theft.”

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News of the robbery sparked criticism over the museum's lapses in security. Some French officials have called the incident a national humiliation.

The Louvre in Paris reopened on Wednesday, three days after thieves made off with historic jewelry worth an estimated $88 million euros in a spectacular heist that has raised urgent questions over security lapses at the museum.

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Trinity High School students from western Kentucky were on a tour of the Louvre in Paris over the weekend when thieves stole more than $100 million worth of jewels, WFIE reported.