The writer is an academic, critic and broadcaster
The Louvre lost €88mn worth of jewellery in less than 10 minutes last week. Gen Z — those enfants terribles — responded to the robbery with memes. Gems of a different kind included posts titled, “Outfits I’d wear to rob the Louvre” and an interpretative dance inspired by the robbery set to a soundtrack of “Je ne regrette rien”.
The French invented Surrealism, so perhaps neither the robbery nor the country’s response to it should seem too absurd.
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