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A daring theft at Paris’s Louvre Museum saw nine pieces of Napoleon’s jewellery stolen from the Apollo Gallery. The museum closed for the day as authorities investigate. No injuries were reported, marking yet another chapter in the Louvre’s history of thefts

The film begins in the year 1789. Marie Antoinette (Catherine Walker), the last Queen of France before the French Revolution is guillotined while young army officer Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix) watches on.

Phoenix, 48, takes on the role of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the film.

Napoleon made looting of precious art more systematic and several wars later, art treasures seem to be the cause rather than the consequence of such rivalries

The nine-piece parure from Stephanie's collection will go under the hammer at Christie's in May

It was not at Waterloo, but Napoleon’s most humiliating defeat came at the hands, well, the paws of a fearsome band of bunny rabbits.