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Two hooded gunmen made off on Monday with two impressionist paintings after invading the home of Jean Fournis, the curator of the Fine Arts Museum of Nice, France, and forcing him to take them into the museum, where they overpowered guards.
The paintings, “The Cliffs of Dieppe,” by Claude Monet, and “The Alley of the Poplars,” by Alfred Sisley, were on loan from the government. The culture minister, Catherine Trautmann, said both paintings were so widely known that they would be impossible to sell.
