1.0The New York Review of Bookshttps://www.nybooks.comMaryanne Chaneyhttps://www.nybooks.com/contributors/maryanne_chaney/The Spy in the Jeu de Paume |rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="1wPlNqOUbi"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/the-spy-in-the-jeu-de-paume-the-art-front-rose-valland/">The Spy in the Jeu de Paume</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/the-spy-in-the-jeu-de-paume-the-art-front-rose-valland/embed/#?secret=1wPlNqOUbi" width="600" height="338" title="“The Spy in the Jeu de Paume” — The New York Review of Books" data-secret="1wPlNqOUbi" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siegal_1-052925-900.jpg900600The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis' looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.