{"id":1785624,"date":"2018-05-18T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785624"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:38:17","slug":"a-gang-of-hungarian-map-thieves-on-trial-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/a-gang-of-hungarian-map-thieves-on-trial-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gang of Hungarian Map Thieves on Trial in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

“French prosecutors on Thursday sought prison terms of up to seven years for a group of Hungarians on trial over accusations they stole rare maps worth millions of euros from a string of French libraries,” Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (Expatica France<\/a><\/em>, The Local<\/a><\/em>). The group of seven reportedly cut maps from books in libraries in cities like Lille, Nancy and Toulouse; they were caught when one of them was stopped by Hungarian customs officials. We\u00a0usually talk about map thieves as single, even singular individuals, but a\u00a0gang<\/em> of map thieves? Move aside, Smiley. [Tony Campbell<\/a>\/WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“French prosecutors on Thursday sought prison terms of up to seven years for a group of Hungarians on trial over accusations they stole rare maps worth millions of euros from a string of French libraries,”… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[153,48,264],"class_list":["post-1785624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-france","tag-libraries","tag-map-thefts","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787393,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/three-men-arrested-for-map-thefts-in-france\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":0},"title":"Three Men Arrested for Map Thefts in France","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Three men have been arrested for stealing approximately \u20ac20,000 worth of maps from municipal libraries in France, Le Parisien reports (in French). The men were arrested near B\u00e9ziers after an investigation that began after an aborted attempt at stealing from Avignon's municipal library. Between late 2018 and early 2019 the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5777,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/05\/a-book-about-forbes-smiley\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":1},"title":"A Book About the Forbes Smiley Affair","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 May 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2005 and 2006 my map blog, The Map Room, was full of posts about one E. Forbes Smiley III, who had been caught stealing rare maps from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. As is often the case with map thieves, Smiley was found to be responsible for many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5780,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/05\/review-the-map-thief\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":2},"title":"Review: The Map Thief","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 May 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"E. Forbes Smiley III was a well-known and well-connected map dealer, an expert who helped build the Slaughter and Leventhal map collections. Then in 2005 he was caught\u2014on videotape\u2014stealing maps from Yale University's Beinecke Library. Libraries he had frequented scrambled to check their own holdings and found additional maps missing.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/the-map-thief-199x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1785595,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/an-18th-century-manuscript-map-of-the-st-lawrence-river\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":3},"title":"An 18th-Century Manuscript Map of the St. Lawrence River","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Another one in French. Last month, Radio-Canada had the story of a manuscript map of the St. Lawrence River that was recently acquired by the Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec. The 18th-century map takes three sheets to trace the course of the St. Lawrence from the Ottawa River to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/carte-du-cours-du-fleuve-st-laurent-1024x758.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/carte-du-cours-du-fleuve-st-laurent-1024x758.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/carte-du-cours-du-fleuve-st-laurent-1024x758.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/carte-du-cours-du-fleuve-st-laurent-1024x758.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":781,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-stolen-champlain-maps-return-to-the-boston-public-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":4},"title":"The Stolen Champlain Map’s Return to the Boston Public Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"After Forbes Smiley was sentenced to 3\u00bd years in prison for stealing nearly 100 maps from\u00a0a number of different libraries,\u00a0and maps\u00a0were returned to the libraries he stole them from,\u00a0there were still some\u00a0missing pieces to the puzzle. There were maps in Smiley's possession that had not been claimed; there were\u00a0maps missing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"champlain-map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/champlain-map-1024x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/champlain-map-1024x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/champlain-map-1024x600.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/champlain-map-1024x600.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1805549,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/1761-map-of-fort-detroit-acquired-crowdfunding-campaign-launched\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785624,"position":5},"title":"1761 Map of Fort Detroit Acquired, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"A 1761 map of Fort Detroit that depicts the fort just after it was ceded by the French to British forces, commissioned by Gen. 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