The story is rare enough to be celebrated.
The Château de Chantilly has just taken over two Japanese lacquer cabinets, dating from the 18th century and which had disappeared for more than forty-five years.
“During the night of August 12 to 13, 1975, and while one of the night guards was on vacation, burglars broke into the park
,” recounts Mathieu Deldicque, curator at the Condé museum.
They managed to deactivate the alarm, and to enter Sylvie's House
(a small hamlet located in the park, editor's note).
"
The thugs leave, in a van, with two Gobelins tapestries, four Japanese vases and the famous lacquer cabinets.
A vase lowered from its plinth, considered undoubtedly too heavy, is abandoned along the way.
Despite the traces left by the burglars, including shoe prints or a watch strap, they could never be found.
Only the photos of the stolen objects remained, a detail that will be important 45 years later.
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