WRITTEN IN FRENCH My grandfather, this hero! At the beginning of the 1930s, Babi Maklouf Benhamou, out of passion for France, left his native Algeria to settle in Paris. After a thousand small jobs, he became a night watchman at the Louvre Museum, which delighted him! Everything could therefore have gone well "in the most beautiful city in the world" if the Second World War had not brought the German army to the gates of Paris. At the request of Jacques Jaujard, the museum curator, Babi must then flee the capital with his wife and children, aboard a truck filled with masterpieces
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