Symbol of French Republic defaced in art attack

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Symbol of French Republic defaced in art attack

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/woman-defaces-famous-louvre-painting-black-pen-122311226.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_wA76VZHwksxf6LyYu7_Ig--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-02-08T122311Z_1_CBRE9170YEV00_RTROPTP_2_ARTS-US-FRANCE-LOUVRE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Vincent Pomarede, curator of painting department at the Louvre Lens Museum, poses front of Eugene Delacroix 's painting at Le Louvre Lens Museum, in Lens, northern France" align="left" title="Vincent Pomarede, curator of painting department at the Louvre Lens Museum, poses front of Eugene Delacroix 's painting at Le Louvre Lens Museum, in Lens, northern France" border="0" /></a>PARIS (Reuters) - A woman has defaced Eugene Delacroix's painting &quot;Liberty Leading the People&quot; with a black marker as it hung in an outpost of the Louvre gallery in northern France. Police arrested a 28-year-old woman on Thursday for writing &quot;AE911&quot; across the bottom of a painting so closely identified with the French Republic that its image once graced the 100-franc note and it has been reproduced on postage stamps. Painted in 1830, the work was on loan from the main Louvre in Paris to the new Louvre-Lens gallery in northern France inaugurated last December by President Francois Hollande. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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