Art historian and curator Laurence des Cars has become the first woman to be appointed the president of Louvre in its 228-year history.
- Louvre is the world’s largest art museum, based in Paris.
- The Louvre is home to the Mona Lisa, a classic that cultural organisations and art lovers across the world would love to exhibit.
- Laurence des Cars is the daughter of a journalist and a writer, and the granddaughter of the novelist Guy des Cars.
- She specialises in 19th and early 20th-century art.
- She is a driving force behind the restitution of art looted by the Nazis during World War II.
