{"id":457,"date":"2025-10-22T04:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=457"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:51:46","slug":"louvre-faces-e27-million-lawsuit-from-napoleons-family-over-solen-artefacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/10\/louvre-faces-e27-million-lawsuit-from-napoleons-family-over-solen-artefacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre faces \u20ac27 million lawsuit from Napoleon\u2019s family over solen artefacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Paris<\/strong> \u2014 The Louvre Museum is facing a \u20ac27 million lawsuit filed by descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming the museum holds several artefacts belonging to Napoleon III. The legal action was initiated this week in the Paris Administrative Court. According to the family\u2019s lawyer, the disputed items include a gold travel compass, a silver inkwell, and a ceremonial sword. These pieces were reportedly removed from private imperial collections during museum reorganizations in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Louvre\u2019s administration confirmed awareness of the case but declined to comment on ongoing legal matters. However, officials stated that all artefacts were acquired through \u201cdocumented and lawful transfers\u201d following the fall of the Second Empire in 1870. The museum emphasized its compliance with French cultural property law, citing oversight from the <a>Ministry of Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bonaparte family argues that several pieces were \u201ctemporarily loaned\u201d to public institutions and never returned. They claim new archival evidence, uncovered at the National Archives, supports their ownership. Historians say similar disputes have arisen in recent years involving aristocratic families and national museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit seeks both restitution of the items and financial compensation for decades of alleged misuse. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture confirmed it is reviewing documentation related to imperial-era acquisitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris \u2014 The Louvre Museum is facing a \u20ac27 million lawsuit filed by descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming the museum holds several artefacts belonging to Napoleon III. The legal action was initiated this week in the Paris Administrative Court. According to the family\u2019s lawyer, the disputed items include a gold travel compass, a silver inkwell,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-louvre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}