The “well-informed” theft has conjured up painful memories of the spectacular heist of crown jewels at the Louvre Museum in Paris last year.

Pair of crooks grabbed four paintings by French impressionist painter, but dropped one as they ran off, Cagnes-sur-Mer mayor says

Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a…