The late-night operations in Paris and nearby Seine-Saint-Denis raised the total number of people arrested to seven.

France will not be reimbursed for the theft of the priceless items stolen from the Louvre in an audacious heist.

Two men arrested over the jewel heist at France's Louvre museum this month will be charged with theft and criminal conspiracy, the Paris prosecutor said Wednesday. The two men, arrested in the Paris region,

The first alert to police came not from the Louvre's alarms but from a cyclist outside who dialed the emergency line after seeing helmeted men with a basket lift.

The “Louvre New Renaissance” plan launched earlier this year includes security improvements and modernization.

The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France, according to French radio RTL, after an audacious daylight heist last week exposed the famed museum's security vulnerability.

The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty Crown Jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame. One week on, and the country is still wounded by the breach to its national heritage.