@dailymail: Four works by celebrated French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum on the French Riviera in an early-morning raid. The artworks are reportedly valued at around €9 million, with one additional painting dropped as the suspects made their escape. Police were called after the museum’s alarm was triggered shortly before 6am, but the thieves had already fled the scene. The heist comes less than a year after a multimillion-euro robbery at Paris’s Louvre, putting renewed attention on security at France’s cultural institutions. #museum #france #news