Jean-Luc Martinez (born 22 March 1964) is the former president of

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. In May 2022 French police charged him with crimes including fraud and money laundering related to antiquities trafficking. Martinez began working at the Louvre in 1997 as a

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. He was the president of the Louvre from 2013 to 2022, and before that, the director of the museum’s

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, and

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art departments.

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Chevalier of the Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

(2015)http://www.legiondhonneur.fr/sites/default/files/promotion/lh20160101_1.pdf

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