It took only seven minutes for thieves in Paris to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre museum on Sunday morning, coming away with jewels of “inestimable value” that had once belonged to Napoleon and his empresses.

There has been a robbery at the famous Louvre museum in central Paris, according to the French culture minister.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said three of four thieves had used the furniture hoist to steal "priceless" goods from the museum's "Gallerie d'Apollon" ("Apollo's Gallery").