New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Historian Eric Anceau has termed the Louvre jewel heist the most serious and spectacular, even surpassing the theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. Speaking with French daily newspaper Le Monde, the historian also said that the items that were stolen from the world's most famous museum carry a much greater symbolic value.

Speaking about the "priceless loss" from the Louvre heist, Eric Anceau said, ".unlike the 2019 Notre-Dame Cathedral fire, which led to an incredible wave of support and reconstruction effort, I fear that yesterday's theft may be irreparable."

"The Louvre has experienced several thefts in the past, but this one is both the most spectacular and the most serious. It even surpasses the theft of the Mona Lisa in...