Word: mnr
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...objects recovered by the French from the Nazis after the war, about 45,000 were immediately returned to their rightful owners, 13,000 of very little value were auctioned off and the 2,000 remaining pieces were put into French museums, each bearing the label "MNR", which indicates the national retrieval effort. The French were under a moral obligation to find and to return recovered art to victims and their heirs after the war, and they...
...travelled with a journalist and photographer to Normandy to visit one of the museums with five "MNR" artworks and to interview the museum's curator. This museum's pride and joy was an unclaimed Monet that had been stolen from France by the Germans, and it also had a Delacroix that had been recovered from the Nazis. But to the curator's knowledge, there had never been a claim on any of these five works despite their having been displayed since the early...