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Camille used a colleague’s terminal to access the wartime inventory records. The numbers from the hidden list matched objects listed as destroyed in a fire at the Jeu de Paume in 1943. But no fire had destroyed those works. They had been quietly sold to private collectors across Europe.

“The casket was a smuggling record,” she said. “A list of looted objects that were supposed to be lost.”

Julien frowned. “And now someone is rewriting the museum’s catalogue so those objects appear legitimate.”

“If the objects have always been in the collection, no one can ask where they came from.”