PARIS, France: Four works of art looted in France by the Nazis during World War 2 have finally been returned to their Jewish owner's legal heirs, the culture ministry announced on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). The aquarelles and drawings by French 19th-century artists were seized in 1940 from Jewish-Egyptian businessman Moise Levi de Benzion, along with hundreds of other works. The works were part of a major collection that he had assembled at his home in France, where he died in 1943, during the war. For years, the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay museums in Paris had custody of the works,...
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