The Aristophil founder faces five years in prison

It was yesterday revealed that that a water leak in the museum's Egyptian antiquities department had damaged hundreds of books

The Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord have also announced new pricing structures

French media report arrest of man in small town in the West of they country, said to have links with those apprehended in October

A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such example in private hands

The much-anticipated report from the Cour des comptes points to issues with the management of the Paris museum and calls for a rethink of priorities

The suspects charged so far do not appear to be linked to any high-level crime networks, according to Laure Beccuau

The arrests come as two men are charged for gang theft and criminal association

The delays to updating the museum’s apparently lacklustre surveillance infrastructure, meanwhile, have been blamed on its ambitious renovation plans

Politicians and unions have criticised the government after the world’s most visited museum was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday

Cultural sites including the Musée Picasso and the Château de Versailles were closed Thursday 18 September due to an action against budget austerity

Lhéritier was charged with fraud by French authorities in 2015, and his company, Aristophil, has since been liquidated

His death was announced on Sunday by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati

The restitution is the first to take place under a 2023 French law on the return of human remains

The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September

The minister is accused of having secretly lobbied for the carmaker Renault-Nissan

Workers at the world's most popular museum launched a strike over “worsening visiting conditions”

Anish Kapoor and Zineb Sedira are among the artists whose work is represented on the provisional list

Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues have been convicted of forging historic chairs and selling them for large amounts

The new museum on the border with Argentina and Paraguay is due to open in November 2027

The Texas museum was the underbidder on “The Cut Melon” last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it directly from the consignor

Antiques dealer Bill Pallot and accomplice Bruno Desnoues sold €3.7m worth of counterfeit royal furniture

In addition to destroying more than 30 works by the artist Kamille Lévêque Jégo, one or more vandals tagged the gallery walls with phalluses and other ‘immature’ imagery

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

The skulls of King Toera and two warriors were held at Paris's Natural History Museum since 1899

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

Officials and archaeologists have said the small object, which was auctioned by Lyon and Turnbull for €22,500 earlier this month, is a copy

Claude Guéant claims the €500,000 in question was raised through the sale of two paintings yet prosecutors found evidence that the works were sold by Christie’s in 1990 for less than €20,000

Restorers were contaminated by lead dust when they scrubbed down the sculptures and decoration of the royal opera in the Château de Versailles

The Académie des beaux-arts warns against threats to “freedom of research and creation" as government and local council spending on the arts is slashed