Overview
- President Emmanuel Macron named Christophe Leribault director during Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, one day after accepting Laurence des Cars’s resignation.
- Leribault, 62, departs the Palace of Versailles, previously led the Musée d’Orsay, and earlier served as a Louvre curator.
- Macron called des Cars’s departure an act of responsibility and assigned her a mission under France’s G7 presidency on cooperation among major museums.
- Des Cars remains scheduled to testify before the parliamentary commission on museum security on Wednesday as an ex-director.
- Investigations into the October theft have produced several detentions but no recovery of the jewels, as the museum also confronts staff strikes, water damage and a €10 million fake‑ticket fraud while modernization plans stay on the agenda.