France reckons with Nazi-looted art in new Paris museum gallery

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PARIS (AP) — The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon. The artwork itself faced an unknown future in 1942, when it was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler , one of countless works swept up in the Nazi plunder of European Jews. On Tuesday, it went on permanent display in a new room at the city’s Musée d’Orsay as part of France’s long-delayed reckoning with Nazi-era looting. The gallery is the first in the museum’s

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