00:00The Louvre heist is being called an attack on our history by the French but some are saying these pieces were looted before by the French. Four people stole eight objects from the Louvre worth an estimated 88 million euros. This necklace, one of the stolen pieces, was commissioned by Napoleon as a wedding gift for Empress Marie-Louise.
00:18We can of course say that diamonds and sapphires and emeralds and pearls are not native to France, right? So we can assume that they would have come from France's or European colonies.
00:31The emeralds may have come from Colombia. That's where Spanish colonizers seized control of emerald mines and enslaved indigenous populations to work them.
00:39According to the Gemological Institute of America, much of the emerald extracted during Spanish control was exported to Europe.
00:45The tiara that they stole had 24 sapphires on it, which are commonly found in Sri Lanka, or they call them Ceylon sapphires.
00:56And the diadem of Empress Eugenie had 212 pearls on it, which are commonly found in the Indian Ocean or in the Persian Gulf.
01:05So we can assume that these were all linked in with very violent colonial pasts.
01:13What we do know about these museums is that they were founded on empire, on colonial expansion, on violent exploitation.
01:22Macron pledged to return looted artifacts to Africa in 2017, but so far many remain in France.
01:27Only this summer, the French government adopted a bill to return colonial era objects.
01:32Museums can deal with objects that have colonial entanglements in several ways, but primarily it is an important opportunity for education.
01:43For education of the public, that these objects do have problematic histories that should be transparent and people should be able to not only know about them,
01:52but have a say in what happens to these cultural objects that are displayed in our national museums.
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