{"id":1787393,"date":"2019-05-30T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787393"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:02:18","slug":"three-men-arrested-for-map-thefts-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/three-men-arrested-for-map-thefts-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Men Arrested for Map Thefts in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three men have been arrested for stealing approximately \u20ac20,000 worth of maps from municipal libraries in France, Le Parisien<\/em> reports<\/a> (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 men managed to steal at least five 15th- or 16th-century maps from libraries in Limoges, Auxerre and Le Mans; the maps have not yet been recovered. [Tony Campbell<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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-1787393","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":781,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-stolen-champlain-maps-return-to-the-boston-public-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787393,"position":0},"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":5777,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/05\/a-book-about-forbes-smiley\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787393,"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":1787393,"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":1300,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/talking-about-map-thefts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787393,"position":3},"title":"Talking About Map Thefts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Here's a profile of Thomas Durrer, the University of Virginia detective assigned to the Gilbert Bland map theft case, in the spring 2016 issue of\u00a0Virginia, the university's alumni magazine. 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