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Stealing the Mona Lisa, 1911

Stealing works of art from heavily guarded museums and galleries is a popular theme for many adventure films and stories, just as popular as bank robberies! Think of films like The Thomas Crown Affair and Ocean's Twelve. But actually, sometimes fact is 1 ... than fiction!

The Mona Lisa, perhaps the most famous painting in the world, 2 ... by Leonardo da Vinci, in Italy, but has been kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris since the early 19th century. On the morning of August 20, 1911, however, the wall where the Mona Lisa usually hung was empty: someone 3 ... it.

The theft turned the whole country upside down and the police investigating the crime questioned everyone they could think of! But the months passed and they 4 ... anyone for the crime. Both the Mona Lisa and the person who had committed the crime were still missing; people began to be afraid that the painting 5 ... forever and something terrible had happened to it.

International police had been searching for the painting for two years before it finally 6 ... in Florence. It seemed that Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian who had once worked at the Louvre, had made off with the painting! He had gone into the Louvre, found the painting unguarded and simply lifted it off the wall and walked out with it! A very easy robbery! He said he had taken it because he had wanted to return it to the country where it 7 .... In January 1914, the painting was returned to its home in the Louvre.

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