What Does Napoleon Have to Do With a 2015 Art Heist?

What Does Napoleon Have to Do With a 2015 Art Heist?

Whether it’s the Louvre theft that opens up the acclaimed series Lupin or the real-life theft of multiple paintings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, there’s something about art heists that gets our attention. Perhaps it has to do with the long history of the objects being purloined; maybe it connects to the efforts of investigators to determine what, exactly, happened. Either way, we have an appetite for it.In his new book, journalist and…