French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them.

The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless crown jewels.

A 24-year-old Chinese woman was indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $2 million worth of gold nuggets from Paris' National Museum of Natural History.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy heads to jail on Tuesday to serve a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of criminal conspiracy in a case related to efforts to obtain campaign financing from Libya during Muammar Gaddafi's rule.

Nicolas Sarkozy is set to become the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned. He begins a five-year sentence Tuesday in Paris’ La Santé prison.

A minute-by-minute look at the daring Louvre robbery, using maps, photos and video to unravel how one of the world’s most famous museums was breached.

An Iranian student detained in France has been readied for a prisoner swap, an Iranian diplomat told semi-official Tasnim news agency on Tuesday, a day after Iran said there was necessary will to exchange prisoners with France.

The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now.

Former FBI agent Robert Wittman, who founded the agency’s Rapid Deployment Art Crime Team, joins TODAY to provide analysis on the jewelry heist at Paris’ Louvre museum Sunday morning. Wittman breaks down why the robbery was conducted during the day,