ABOUT THE THEFT OF THE FRENCH IMPERIAL CROWN JEWELS

October 29, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell / Comments Off

I have been intending to blog about the recent brazen theft of the Imperial French Crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris, but other stories have intruded, but I decided that this week, whatever else may happen, that I have to blog about it, because there is something about this whole story that like so many other stories lately, seems "off". My first reaction upon hearing of the theft was which French crown jewels? Those of the Bourbon monarchy that literally ended beneath the guillotine blades of the nutcases running the French revolution? (and were any of them even still around in an identifiable collection?) Or were they the crown jewels of the First Empire of Bonaparte? or of the Second Empire of Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)? Or was it some eclectic collection of all the above? Then the news came out that the crown of Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III's wife, was left behind, as was a diamond of over 100 carats that was part of the collection.

And this fact indicated to many people examining the theft - including this author - that the theft was at least a professional job. The thieves were, after all, in and out and the deed was done in less than 10 minutes, and the perpetrators have since disappeared entirely, along with the stolen crown jewels, which included some nearly priceless and beautiful emerald and sapphire necklaces. By this point, the speculation seems to run to the possibility that the thieves deliberately picked the items they wanted for their ability to be -recut, and sold (many of you sent versions of the story and I am grateful to all of you who did so. For our high octane speculation purposes, however, we will follow this BBC version of the event):

Can France retrieve its priceless crown jewels - or is it too late?

Note that this article promotes the standard narrative that this was simply the act of a bunch of professional thieves, deliberately choosing which items to take, and which to leave behind (The crown of the Empress Eugenie being one of the objects left behind):

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand told the BBC he feared the jewels may already be "long gone", having been broken up into hundreds of parts.

It is highly likely the pieces will be sold for a fraction of their worth and smuggled out of France, other experts have said.

The group were professionals, Mr Brand believes, as demonstrated by the fact they were in and out of the Louvre so quickly.

"You know, as a normal person, you don't wake up in the morning thinking, I will become a burglar, let's start with the Louvre," he said.

"This won't be their first heist," he said. "They have done things before, other burglaries. They are confident and they thought, we might get away with this, and went for it."

In another sign the professionalism of the gang is being taken seriously, a specialist police unit with a "high success rate in cracking high-profile robberies" has been tasked with tracking them down.

Authorities have said they suspect the heist is linked to an organised crime network. Mr Brand says it means the perpetrators will likely have criminal records and be known to the police.

Police on Monday said a vest and equipment left at the scene had been submitted for analysis. Mr Brand suggests DNA evidence would be a likely way the thieves could be caught.

Organised crime groups like these generally have two objectives, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said. "Either to act for the benefit of a sponsor, or to obtain precious stones to carry out money laundering operations."

Mr Brand thinks it would be impossible to sell the items intact, and he said stealing-to-order for a private collector is something that only happens in Hollywood films.

"Nobody wants to touch a piece so hot," he explained. "You cannot show it to your friends, you cannot leave it to your children, you cannot sell it."(Emphasis added.)

It is, however, precisely that highlighted and emphasized portion in the above quotation that I want to pursue in today's high octane speculation, and in connection with the crown of the Empress Eugenie, for in one of the very earliest versions of the story to emerge, the Empress's crown was not "left behind" by the thieves, but was rather dropped by them as they made their escape. And if that be true, then the intention may have been precisely to steal the jewels not as part of a re-cut-and-money laundering operation, but as part of something far different: the theft of important symbols of state.

Such a motivation has its own suggestive context in a country torn by mass immigration and the apparently deliberate rejection of "French culture" by the current regime in power in Paris. After all, M. Macron informed his countrymen - during a speech at the Verdun memorial where hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen lost their lives in World War I no less - that there was no such thing as French culture. As such, some possibilities along these lines suggest themselves: someone might be trying to protect those important cultural symbols until the time that sanity returns to the presidential palace, or as a means of securing the symbols of legitimacy against the possibility of a dramatic change of regime. Alternatively, someone might actually be holding them hostage, trying to coerce policy changes, one policy for one bauble at a time.

My point is, that one does not steal crown jewels for nothing for the simple reason that if the money-laundering-for-recut gems is the name of the game, then there are easier gemstone targets for such an operation than the crown jewels of a European great power. The deliberate theft of crown jewels suggests both a cultural and a political purpose, rather than mere theft, is paramount. Imagine going to the trouble to steal all the British, or German, or Austrian, or Russian crown jewels (the Star of Arfica or the Orlov diamonds in the British or Russian imperial scepters for example), just for the purpose of cutting the giant stones down for resale, and you get the idea: is the trouble and risk worth the effort? I am arguing that it is not, and that therefore the purpose is more likely cultural and political in nature.

Time, as it always does, will tell.

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

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john on November 10, 2025 at 7:34 am

The notion that royals paid professionals to steal the jewels holds a lot of water.
In addition to monetary/historical value and bragging rights, what else could be the motive by these nefarious royals?
Precious metals and gems have long had a history of being energetic spiritual technology devices. They are used today in advanced industry and aerospace. Crystals abound and quartz is used for light-based data storage.
I like the theory, partially my own, that through the ages the royals have worn them as psionic and telekinesis amplifiers, their royal genetics possibly having come down from ancient Sumeria via the heralded Scythian bloodline. (And later the Merovingian).
Queen Elizabeth I had a famous gown geometrically strewn with gems…..a psionic web to foil her enemies with?
For communicating with visiting ETs psychically through the ages?
John Dee would know.
Scott S on November 1, 2025 at 2:00 am

They were allowed to be “stolen”. It’s the only possibility. I’d bet they were taken away by the old French families for safe keeping during the impending war and purge.
- john on November 10, 2025 at 7:21 am
  
  A good thought. Royalty are not to be trusted and still rule in secret.
Brendan on October 30, 2025 at 5:25 pm

I heard that the crown jewels were stolen from the Louvre because Macron doesn’t have any.
- Brendan on October 30, 2025 at 5:34 pm
  
  p.s. I am sure that is not true. 🙂
Michael UK on October 30, 2025 at 3:56 am

The whole episode is a farce! Worthy of Inspector Clouseau and The Pink Panther series.

It was clearly reported that the thieves dropped the crown of Empress Eugenie in their rush to get away!
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251020-robbery-at-the-louvre-what-will-happen-to-france-s-stolen-crown-jewels

Then the thieves left traces of their DNA over everything, so detectives could follow and identify them!
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251023-france-examining-dna-samples-after-louvre-heist

Finally, 7 of them were caught!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz91jnyelq2o

In the words of our Inspector Clouseau “There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them”.
marcos toledo on October 29, 2025 at 5:40 pm

Could this be part of a worldwide cultural destruction that has been ongoing for five hundred to fifteen hundred years? Could that be the key that unlocks these crimes we have here, first the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, now the theft of the French Crown Jewels. Go back to the ongoing destruction of Native American cultural items, be they the Mound Builders sites in the US, grave robbing throughout the Americas, and cultural sites as well.
mirkogordan on October 29, 2025 at 1:54 pm

Could the motive be:
We are here, and we will turn your country into dār al-Islam anyway, and therefore we don’t give a f**k about the meaning of your crown jewels.
Robert Barricklow on October 29, 2025 at 11:08 am

Intelligence connected?
Crypto?
Bonaparte Family in the mix?
Was there a “specific theft/target?
The rest of the op; designed to camaflage the real objective?
Did “they” then, leave out a critical piece; of the puzzle?

So to prevent the “NEW SOVIRT STATE” of migrants, and their “revolutionary sponsors”;
from acquiring the “Crown Jewels”?

No doubt; a STACKED-OP.
If any real investigator gets too close?
A deadly message; will discourage any further, Sherlocks Capitalists.
- anakephalaiosis on October 29, 2025 at 11:21 am
  
  Fāgin is heading for the Crown:
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/xzp5qpm3v4f8n1d/oliver-twist.mp4
  
  Oops, the he is already there:
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/xp6kyjuvcqtjdy1zbs1yf/looney-tunes8.jpg?rlkey=tjcb4ezgdi63qgipav8kvuzvm
  - anakephalaiosis on October 29, 2025 at 11:50 am
    
    U.S. mafia heist:
    https://wikiwarriors.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:American_soldier_with_the_Charlemagne's_crown,_may_1945.jpg