France has promised to return seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during the second world war, part of efforts to give back hundreds of looted art that hangs in the Louvre and other museums.
The works were stolen or sold under duress up to seven decades ago as their owners fled Nazi-occupied Europe.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/france-art-theft
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