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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8167579, member: 128351&quot;]Most, if not all of what the French looted in the late 1790s and early 1800s was given back to the previous owners as soon as 1814. There are several paintings that were looted and are still in French museums, but it is because their previous owners did not reclaim them or preferred a financial compensation.</p><p>This medallion was discovered in Turkey in 1751. It was most probably bought by order of Louis XV or XVI for the royal collection. Since Louis XIV (1643-1715) the French ambassadors, consuls, merchants in the Middle East and Asia had orders to systematically buy rare manuscripts and antiquities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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