Louvre suffers another major setback as burst pipe damages rare books, adding to troubles following theft of Napoleon crown ...

The Louvre and the Orsay, the premier museums of Paris, have reopened after an emergency closure last week to move masterpieces to higher ground during the city's worst flooding in decades.

Up to 400 documents have been damaged by the leak, according to Francis Steinbock, the deputy administrator of the museum. But no works of art were affected.

Insult has been added to injury at the world's most visited museum, the Louvre in the French capital Paris, as weeks after a ...