Photo of the Day

No. 543

‘she made me do it’

The news came on a Tuesday night; and, for a moment, the people of Paris forgot their worries about a looming war against Germany.

La Gioconda, the French name for the Mona Lisa, had vanished from her place on the wall of the Louvre’s Salon Carré, the gallery of Renaissance treasures, and no one knew what had become of her.

“‘La Giocond…