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Gerri Chanel - Saving Mona Lisa
In late August 1939, as war loomed over Europe, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited it away to the Loire Valley. Thus began the biggest evacuation of art and antiques in history
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