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How a clever French museum director secretly saved the Louvre's artwork from Nazi plunder

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Jacques Jaujard , deputy director of French National Museums , foresaw Nazi invasion of France before the war even started.

The Nazis would plunder France 's museums and loot the world's art treasures from the Louvre.

The "Mona Lisa" would be moved six times to abbeys and chateaux in the French countryside and a small museum in southern France .