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LVMH to support effort to bring renaissance masterpiece back to France

24/10/2017
LVMH to support effort to bring renaissance masterpiece back to France

Luxury group LVMH has pledged to match money raised by the public in a crowdfunding campaign to bring a precious book back to France. Paris’s Louvre museum has launched the campaign to acquire a Book of Hours prayer book made in 1532 for King François I. Its cover is metal encrusted with precious stones but its pages are parchment. Experts have...

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