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In August 1911, a then little-known (outside of the art community) painting called the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. What then 29-year-old, who was also little-known but who would later become as well-known (arguably) as the Mona Lisa, was briefly a suspect in the theft? The reason for the suspicion was due to his close friendship with Guillaume Apollinaire, a poet and art critic, who once employed a man named Honoré-Joseph Géry-Pieret. Pieret had admitted to stealing from the Louvre, which led police to question Apollinaire's friend.

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