A Stolen Degas Painting Is Found, Nine Years Later, On A Bus

The painting, stolen in December, 2009, from a museum in Marseille, was (randomly, it appears) found in a suitcase on a bus outside of Paris during a customs check. "France Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen called the find a 'happy rediscovery of a precious work belonging to the national collections, whose disappearance represented a heavy loss for French impressionist heritage.'"

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