Seven minutes is all it took for thieves to rob the world’s most famous museum Sunday. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how it went down.

Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief for the ‘The New York Times,’ discusses the painful irony at the heart of Sunday’s grand theft.

PARIS (AP) — The director of the Louvre Museum on Wednesday acknowledged a ″terrible failure″ at the Paris monument after a stunning daylight crown jewel heist at the world’s most-visited museum, and said she offered to resign but it was refused.

George Clooney weighed in on the real-life heist at Paris' Louvre museum while speaking with reporters at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Jay Kelly.' "I mean, they seem to have done a pretty good job of getting away with it,

Laurence des Cars, Director of the Louvre, has offered to resign following the daring theft of historic jewelry valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the Paris museum, referring to the heist as a "terrible failure" for the museum.

A daring daylight jewellery heist at the Louvre Museum has inadvertently provided an unexpected boost for a German manufacturer, after images of their freight lift, used by the thieves, went viral. Böcker Maschinenwerke GmbH, the German firm behind the equipment, is now experiencing a surge in attention following the audacious robbery.

Laurence des Cars, the Louvre's president and director, is set to testify about the heist before the French Senate's Culture, Education and Sport Committee on Oct. 22.

In total, thieves stole about €88 million worth of jewels on Sunday, including a necklace Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Marie-Louise of Austria, the tiara, necklace and earrings of Queen Hortense, and a diadem, diamond bow brooch and reliquary brooch that once belonged to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars acknowledged that security failures, including a lack of perimeter surveillance, allowed thieves to pull off heist.