Word: cochere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many artful scores. Early this year the Grand Palais in Paris spent $1 million on extra security and $590,000 on insurance for a major retrospective of Georges Seurat. The exhibitors grouped sketches together in cases and bolted paintings onto the walls. But a small Seurat drawing, Le Cocher de Fiacre, vanished after video and alarm systems had been turned off and before guards had started their rounds. The smell of a rat is even more pungent in raids on storage rooms. According to a police survey, 57.8% of all thefts of paintings and drawings from public collections in France...
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