How a clever French museum director secretly saved the Louvre's artwork from Nazi plunder

How a clever French museum director secretly saved the Louvre's artwork from Nazi plunder

People can often feel when war is brewing, and some take precautions just in case. A combination of political unrest, bombastic language and sabre-rattling from leaders, on-the-ground shifts in military presence or police activity and other indicators can signal that war is imminent, and in the 1930s, Jacques Jaujard saw the writing on the wall. The deputy director of French National Museums foresaw Germany's invasion of France before the war ev…